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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.

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Five Dollars a Day is Not Enough for Five a Day

By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth

Very few traditional farming systems have had a high share of fruits and vegetables unless you include starchy crops like plantains, potatoes, cassava or yams in your definition.

  • April 24, 2019
Swedish Friesian

The Planet of the Cows

By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth

Learning to know each other (the cows and us) and see how we together shape the farm made us think more about cows and cow-man interaction and dependency.

  • March 28, 2019

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
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