Organic farming was, and still is, the most effective system of applying what I thought to be the principles of sustainable agriculture.
HRH The Prince of Wales (1996)
“Organic agriculture is a set of food production protocols that have developed in parallel with chemical agriculture, and as a response to it. Rudolf Steiner presented what is arguably the first organic agriculture course to an audience of 111 farmers and others, from six continental European countries, in 1924 in what is now the Polish village of Kobierzyce (then Koberwitz).
The World Map of Organic Agriculture illustrates the great unevenness of the global uptake of organic agriculture. The map is dominated by the presence of Australia which appears especially bloated, and this reflects its world leadership position in terms of its number of organic agriculture hectares. South America has a strong presence accounted for in large measure by three countries, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. Europe collectively has a strong presence with substantial contributions from many states, and led by Spain, Italy, Germany, UK, France, and Austria.” (modified extract from Paull & Hennig, 2016)
