Going Organic Mobilizing Networks for Environmentally Responsible food Production

Abstract

There is a familiar story about organic food and agriculture that anyone interested in the industry will have heard many times. Organic farming techniques were pioneered in the early twentieth century by small groups of farmers concerned about the effects of mechanization, fertilizer use and other forms of intensification on the biological health of the soil. The key to healthy plants, animals and people, they believed, was the diversity of lifeforms found in the soil.