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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.

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
Vertical farming

The Dream of Food without Dirt

By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth

Silicon Valley meets Hollywood. That is the best description of how we will get food in the future if we would believe the impressive number of food tech start-ups which will produce food without soil or animals. But few of them deliver on their exaggerated promises.

  • October 2, 2018
Fiat factory

Competition, not Consumption, Drives Global Destruction

By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth

"We have to reduce consumption and resource use", is a statement that is gaining some traction. Considering that all that is consumed has to be produced and vice versa it is a logical claim that we also have to reduce production, but that seems to be a lot more provocative.

  • September 20, 2018

How Cleanliness and Efficiency Obscure our Relation to Nature

By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth

Instead of retreating into urban eco-sanctuaries and buying industrial fare in hygienic and eco-friendly packaging, people need to grow, tend to animals, muck, dig, cook and bake. Only then can we expect people to become ecologically literate and realise that we are part of nature. 

  • April 16, 2018

Food Self-Sufficiency – Does it Make Sense?

By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth

After the food price hike in 2007-2008 and in a world that many feel is less secure, there is a renewed interest in food self-sufficiency. Food self-sufficiency is, however, widely critiqued by economists as a misguided approach to food security that places political priorities ahead of economic efficiency.

  • March 13, 2018

Can We Cure the Global Eating Disorder?

By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth

We often fail to realize that food is also ubiquitous in our modern society, not only providing nutrition, but also a strong determinant of most aspects of the economy, society and culture.

  • March 6, 2018
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