Gunnar Rundgren

Gunnar Rundgren has worked with most parts of the organic farm sector. He has published several books about the major social and environmental challenges of our world, food and farming.

Grazing dairy cattle

A nail in the coffin? Not really.

Over the last decade, there has been a heated discussion about the possibility to sequester carbon in agriculture soils. I believe that nobody claims that it is impossible but there is huge disagreement about how much and for how long this can take place.

March 11, 2024

heritage pigs

Our ancestors speak to us through native breeds. We should listen.

The biggest value of the native farm breeds is about relationship between humans, the agroecosystem, the culture and the local natural world that we are part of. They also root us in history; our ancestors speak to us through them. We should listen.

March 1, 2024

European farmer protests

How to save Europe’s farmers

I think the only way out of this predicament is to place farming and food production at the center and heart of the debate about the future of society – few people can dispute that food is the most essential production there is.

February 26, 2024

Swedish silage field

Feed use in Swedish livestock production

Again and again it is demonstrated that grass based ruminant farming, in most cases, despite a very high feed use and land use, is simply one of the most sustainable farming systems there are.

February 5, 2024

Dutch farmer protests

Peak pork and the recoupling of people and livestock to the land

In the longer term, agriculture and food systems must be organized in a similar way as natural ecosystems where most, but not all, nutrients are circulating within the ecosystem.

January 10, 2024

Geoffrey, Zambian smallholder

Small farms don’t produce 70% of the worlds food – but they could produce all

The key message is that the potential of small farms for global food production is determined by economic conditions rather than biological, ecological or agronomic limitations

October 17, 2023

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