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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. Curretly, he runs a small farm with vegetables, fruits and nuts as well as a handful of cows.

Only Possible to Feed People Sustainably in an Equitable Society

By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth

A recent report from the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) confirms that the current food system isn’t sustainable neither for the environment nor for our health. Organic agriculture, conservation farming and agro-ecology are key technologies for a transition to a sustainable food system, which also has to shun artificial nitrogen fertilizers.

  • March 4, 2019
Emporer's New Clothes

You Say You Love your Children Above All Else

By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth

Sometimes, one event or action can trigger a cascade of events which will bring down even the mightiest empire. The school strike of 15-year old Greta Thunberg can be such an event, even if we will not know until later.

  • January 30, 2019
Robot

The Singularity is Already Here – It Is the Market

By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth

The market economy exhibits most of the traits of the much hyped – and feared – singularity, where an artificial intelligence takes over the show and humans are enslaved.

  • December 3, 2018

A Fixed Meat Ration is Not the Path to Sustainable Food Systems

By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth

We should focus our interest into the transition to a sustainable and regenerative food and agriculture system. Such a system would exclude or substantially reduce those foods which are wasteful regardless if those are eggs from caged hens or asparagus flown from one side of the globe to the other.

  • November 14, 2018
hydroponics

Instead of Decoupling, we need Recoupling

By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth

The path to meaning – and real sustainability - is the opposite; it is through recoupling with nature. Instead of denying that we are an integral part of nature in which we swim, live, mate, laugh, cry and die, we need to embrace that fact.

  • November 8, 2018
Organic farm worker

Among Foodies and Organic Farmers in Russia

By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth

I am not surprised that the government neglects these subsistence farmers, their contribution to the GDP and to the grand plans of the President is small. I am surprised, however, that they seem to be neglected also by the organic association. It seems to me to be a key group for the development of local, resilient and small scale organic farming.

  • October 31, 2018
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