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Gunnar Rundgren

Gunnar Rundgren has worked with most parts of the organic farmer sector – from farming to policy - since 1977, starting on the pioneer organic farm, Torfolk. Founder and Senior Consultant of Grolink AB, he worked for several United Nations agencies and development cooperation organizations including the World Bank. He was a World Board member of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements 1998 and the president 2000-2005. He has written several books, the latest being Global Eating Disorder. Currently, he runs a small farm with vegetables, fruits and nuts as well as a handful of cows.

Dairy cows

Don’t throw the cow out with the feedlot

By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth

While there are many environmental and ethical reasons to criticize industrial forms of livestock production, there are no valid reasons to shun the rearing of livestock in general.

  • March 22, 2021
Wood box by Tom Tanaka

Think inside the right box

By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth

In my talk, I encouraged the participants to think inside the box of Norrbotten for food production. What can actually be produced in a good way on their lands?

  • February 18, 2021
porridge oats

Oats or milk is not the question

By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth

The choice between milk and plant-based alternatives is less important than how the food system is designed and how they are produced.

  • January 19, 2021
spider web

A life on our planet – review

By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth

Because the film is so compelling and Attenborough such a sympathetic person, viewers may accept all of its statements and arguments. This would, however, be a mistake in my opinion.

  • October 29, 2020
Palm oil

Of mice, men and elephants

By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth Blog

In most prevailing sustainability narratives, increased efficiency is a prominent component. It is a prerequisite for the supposed possibility to combine decreasing pressure on natural resources with economic growth.

  • October 22, 2020
Card trick

Is the Green Deal a card shuffle trick?

By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth

Neither empirical evidence not the application of green technologies or practices discussed in this article support that economic growth can be combined with reduced resource demands.

  • October 5, 2020
first electric car

What a Milk Carton Can Tell Us

By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth

My milk package, the electric cars, agriculture land use and the wood saving stoves are all examples showing why overall reduction in resources use or emissions (absolute decoupling) through substitution and efficiency is a pipe dream in a growth economy.

  • August 11, 2020
Vertical farming Mongolia 2015

Do We Need Farmfree Food?

By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth

Instead of de-coupling human civilization from nature, we need to live in and by nature. We are fooling ourselves and betray the rest of the living by pretending we are a species that doesn't need the rest of the living – after all we are nature.

  • May 4, 2020
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