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Re-Thinking Organic Food and Farming in a Changing World

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Olivier De Schutters provides the starting point for our final reflections on ethics in the organic agrofood chain. In his report for the Human Rights Council (De Schutter 2010, p. 1) he writes: “The reinvestment in agriculture, […], is essential to the concrete realization of the right to food. However, in a context of ecological, food and energy crises, the most pressing issue regarding reinvestment is not how much, but how. This how should contribute to the progressive realization of the human right to adequate food.” The report itself highlights the significance of agro-ecology and similar agricultural approaches such as organic farming to fulfill the human right to food.

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    http://www.wfto.com

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    IFOAM is currently (2012–2013) in an intense process of implementing new activities,—e.g. the establishment of a global certification data base or the legislative process by consultation of “Best Practice Reference for Agriculture and Its Value Chains”; see http://www.ifoam.org/; http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/organic/home_en

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    http://www.ifoam.org/en/value-chain/ifoam-best-practice-program

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    e.g. the diverse activities documented at the IFOAM homepage: http://www.ifoam.org/

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  1. Department of Sustainable Agriculture Systems, Division of Organic Farming, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria

    Bernhard Freyer

  2. Department of Community Sustainability, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

    Jim Bingen

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    Jim Bingen

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Freyer, B., Bingen, J. (2015). Positioning Organic Ethics. In: Freyer, B., Bingen, J. (eds) Re-Thinking Organic Food and Farming in a Changing World. The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics, vol 22. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9190-8_14

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