Not so many years ago most farm businesses would not have felt broadband connectivity to be the necessity it is today. But as the world has rapidly moved online, internet access has failed to keep pace in rural areas. While city dwellers are now relishing the prospect of 100Mbit connection speeds (and even beyond) with…
Read More ...As of December 31st, 2011, all core funding for Organic Centre Wales has ceased. This news came as a very unwelcome blow to all involved in the sector and throws up an awful lot of questions around the future of support for organic food and farming in Wales. OCW has long been involved in many,…
Read More ...The IFOAM EU Group, the European arm of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements, has sent a strong message to the European Commission on the co-existence of GM farming. We believe this was something that needed saying clearly to the law-makers, and needs saying over and over again, if needs be. From our perspective…
Read More ...We keep saying, OF&Gs’ concerns about GM technology is not about taking the Luddite position regardless of anything else; we’re just pretty sure the case isn’t proved that it’s safe or can be controlled when it’s out in the environment. Interesting then, to read this take on the situation we find ourselves in: GM regulators…
Read More ...There seems to be some confusion over how much food we’re going to need in the future. The trouble is, instead of all the interested parties putting their heads together to solve this rather important problem (or at least come to a mutual best guess) the issue has been turned into an unseemly public row….
Read More ...It was a good few weeks ago that we heard the winning entrant in the competition to choose an EU organic food logo had been chosen (the beginning of February, in actual fact). This logo is, by regulation, due to begin appearing on new organic products from July. That’s right, July this year. Unfortunately, we…
Read More ...Sometimes you’re just left scratching your head. Here’s a simple scenario: BBC One’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…
Read More ...Taiwan is marking its Organic Agriculture Day today and there are some comments from the Speaker of the country’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’s the Story? conference last month, he’s talking about the growing scarcity of…
Read More ...Here are some of today’s more interesting and useful news and opinion pieces we’ve been looking at: Saudia Arabia is in the process of setting up an organic farming structure and, judging by this piece, they’re going about it in all the right ways. The Evening Standard’s Jonathan Prynn notes Liz Hurley’s emphatic comments about…
Read More ...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…
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