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		<title>BBC accused of organic bias</title>
		<link>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/11/18/bbc-accused-of-organic-bias/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you&#8217;re just left scratching your head.
Here&#8217;s a simple scenario: BBC One&#8217;s Countryfile does a piece looking at the state of the market for organic food. Fair enough.
In it they talk to people involved in organic food and get a rather perceptive take from a marketer on how the sector could be pushing itself (putting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taiwan: they get it</title>
		<link>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/11/11/taiwan-they-get-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OF&#38;G</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taiwan is marking its Organic Agriculture Day today and there are some comments from the Speaker of the country&#8217;s legislature that sum up a few key issues, as reported in the Taiwan News.
Much like what we heard at our Selling Organics: What&#8217;s the Story? conference last month, he&#8217;s talking about the growing scarcity of resources [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading list: 4 November 09</title>
		<link>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/11/04/reading-list-4-november-09/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OF&#38;G</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some of today&#8217;s more interesting and useful news and opinion pieces we&#8217;ve been looking at:

Saudia Arabia is in the process of setting up an organic farming structure and, judging by this piece, they&#8217;re going about it in all the right ways.
The Evening Standard&#8217;s Jonathan Prynn notes Liz Hurley&#8217;s emphatic comments about the FSA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FSA shrugs off French organic study</title>
		<link>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/09/18/fsa-shrugs-off-french-organic-study/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OF&#38;G</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somewhat strangely, the Food Standards Agency has felt the need to publicly dismiss the findings of a French study that called into question its own recently published and controversial report.
The FSA-funded research by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine made the claim that organic food was no more nutritious than non-organic. This has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>French find what FSA missed?</title>
		<link>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/09/10/french-find-what-fsa-missed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OF&#38;G</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an interesting study on organic food, including nutrition, that seems to run counter to the report published a few weeks ago on behalf of the Food Standards Agency.
The French Agency for Food Safety (AFSSA) begs to differ with the findings that proved so controversial in this country.
You can view the report, led by Denis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New funding round for Welsh organics</title>
		<link>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/09/10/new-funding-round-for-welsh-organics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OF&#38;G</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just spotted this piece from Farmers Guardian flagging up a new round of funding from the Welsh Assembly Government for organic conversion.
That&#8217;s good to see, though there are a couple of caveats:

There is a small application window &#8211; 15 September to the end of the month
The available funding is limited to £700,000

That said, we&#8217;re pleased [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FSA report bashes organics &#8211; again</title>
		<link>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/07/29/fsa-report-bashes-organics-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/07/29/fsa-report-bashes-organics-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OF&#38;G</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again the Food Standards Agency has managed to garner a boat load of silly season headlines for a report on organic food that tells us little but is likely to damage sales.
&#8220;No additional health benefits of organic food&#8221; is the gist of the coverage of this latest publication by the FSA. It&#8217;s the kind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A distinguished audience for our CEO</title>
		<link>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/07/08/a-distinguished-audience-for-our-ceo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/07/08/a-distinguished-audience-for-our-ceo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OF&#38;G</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In approximately half an hour OF&#38;Gs&#8217; Chief Executive, Richard Jacobs, will be delivering a speech to an audience at the
Royal Show which will include EU Commissioners.
Richard was invited to do this by Defra, in order to present a view from a certifier. His presentation will be entitled &#8216;Organic food and farming: setting the tone for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Australia about to kill its organic standard?</title>
		<link>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/05/27/is-australia-about-to-kill-its-organic-standard/</link>
		<comments>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/05/27/is-australia-about-to-kill-its-organic-standard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 13:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OF&#38;G</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fears seem to be growing in Australia that the Government there is going to effectively remove controls on the certification of organic produce, much to the horror of those in the country&#8217;s organic sector.
This seems to be an amazingly misguided step which could destroy the export market overnight and massacre the confidence of Aussie shoppers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GM increases toe-hold in Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/01/08/gm-increases-toe-hold-in-africa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/01/08/gm-increases-toe-hold-in-africa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some depressing news reported by the Theatre of Inconveniences blog about Kenya taking rapid steps towards a genetically modified farming future. Quite how they think this will be of benefit to the country is anyone&#8217;s guess, but the arguments are pretty well fleshed out in the blog posting, which I&#8217;d recommend you read.



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