Organic and related links

Accreditation bodies, regulations &c

• IOFGA - Irish organic accreditation body
• Organic Trust - Irish organic accreditation body
• Demeter international - list of national biodynamic accrediting agencies (Demeter Ireland link appears to be dead at the moment)
• EU Directive 2092-91 - re organic standards
• Australian standards document
• Organic Laws and Regulations
• Soil Association UK

Organic farming and farmers

• some 1998 stats on Irish organic farming
• House of Lords Enquiry into Organic Farming - submission by ESRC Global Environmental Change Programme, University of Sussex
• Organic attack bogus research - activist webpage re standards and food safety
• Organic Farming Policy Documents - from Organic Centre, Aberystwyth
• Organic Centre - Newsletter Summer 2000
• Organic Farming in Europe - book
• Organic Farming in Ireland (facts & stats)
• organic farming in UK (facts & stats)

Marketing

• Organic Market Report - Bord Bia (Irish Food Board)

Food safety

• Food Safety Authority of Ireland

Research bodies

• organic research MAFF
• organic agriculture research - Norway (only country in Europe that seems to look at consumer issues)

Diet & nutrition

• conference papers: Agriculture, Food & Human Values Society - Food choice group 1999
• Nutrition in Finland - National Public Health Institute, Finland
• SIFO - Publications Food and market (Norwegian Consumer organisation)
• Institute for Food Research UK

Sellers of organic produce

• Good Herdsmen - Our Farmers - Irish organic meat producers
• Superquinn - Nutrition, Organics - supermarket page
• Taste Organics - Sainsburys sponsored organic page

Irish Times articles

• Musgraves sponsor Organic Centre
• Public 'entitled' to organic food option (on safety of organic food, and on accreditation issues)
• Supermarket group goes organic - about Iceland in UK buying up organic food sources
• Organic farming embraced with age of 'designer milk'
• 'Enormous potential' in organic food - so says Minister of Agriculture

Guardian articles

• In fear of fruit and veg
• One in four shoppers buy organic
• Organic farmers fear growing pains
• Organic food sales booming
• Organic heroes who've changed the way we shop
• Shoppers go organic after GM food scare
• Stores go to war on organic sales

Community gardening

• How to guide

Slow food

• Ollie's presentation

last updated by Perry Share on 28 March 2006 18:28