FoodWISE and fierce food beliefs—what’s the deal with organic?

I read the beginning of the section on “Fierce Food Beliefs” in FoodWISE and ask us to take a serious look at organic. What’s the deal with organic? Good idea or bad idea? Biodynamics? See organic and Italy’s rich food heritage (in praise of heritage farming and biodiversity) and also: Italy says organic is all…

Early research, organic farming (and related) systems—mine and others

I am writing an essay on early organic systems research (reporting on my research at Cornell University, and elsewhere). It will be published as part of a series of Contemporary World Issues handbooks, “Organic Food and Farming: A Reference Handbook” (ABC-CLIO). The following are some of the references for this paper that were omitted for…

A FoodWISE moment: Organics, carbon, climate change, and the future of food

“Is organic food really better for the environment?” That was the title of a recent blog post recent blog by Anuradha Varanasi writing for Columbia University’s Earth Institute. This is a great question, and it refers to a study reported on in Nature in 2018  (See original article).   Dozens of commentaries have been published…