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

Samoan farming

In defence of farming

By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth

To increase the distance between humans and the living world which is also our life support system is bound to aggravate the separation between humans and nature with devastating results for both humans and the rest of the living world.

  • June 3, 2022
Runestone

Landskap – a model for the future?

By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth

 Landskap, therefore, is the nature we have together, where we live. The word expresses that we are part of the landscape and that the landscape is part of us.

  • May 17, 2022
cows in restored grassland

Being nature

By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth Blog

The sustainable and gainful interaction between humans and the rest of the living world will not be created on a drawing board but rather be developed by people being grounded, being terrestrial, being nature.

  • May 3, 2022
Women smallholders

Why we will never run out of work

By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth

Our wants will never be satisfied in a capitalist economy, and the demand for work will never cease. They are both prerequisites for and results of the expansion of capital.

  • February 7, 2022
food in fridge

To waste or to waist

By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth

At the heart of both the environmental crisis and the obesity crisis is the capitalist market economy. It is the definition of capitalism that capital is multiplied.

  • January 21, 2022
fertiliser spreader

Nitrogen fertilizer is not a climate solution

By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth

Nitrogen fertilizers are not just a technicality, they are a major building block in the industrial, global and capitalist agriculture system. As such they both drive and enable the increasing metabolic rift between human society and the ecosystem that sustains it.

  • August 17, 2021
Organic farming

The nitrogen challenge for organic agriculture

By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth

It is often claimed that half of the global food supply is made possible by the use of chemical fertilizers, but is it true that we will starve if all farms in the world were organic?

  • August 4, 2021
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