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.
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
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
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
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
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
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