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Author:   Gregory A. Barton 

Organic farming is a major global movement that is changing land-use and consumer habits around the world. This book tells the untold story of how the organic farming movement nearly faltered after an initial flurry of scientific interest and popular support. Drawing on newly-unearthed archives, Barton argues that organic farming first gained popularity in an imperial milieu before shifting to the left of the political spectrum after decolonization and served as a crucial middle stage of environmentalism. Modern organic protocols developed in British India under the guidance of Sir Albert Howard before spreading throughout parts of the British Empire, Europe, and the USA through the advocacy of his many followers and his second wife Louise. Organic farming advocates before and during World War II challenged the industrialization of agriculture and its reliance on chemical fertilizers. They came tantalizingly close to influencing government policy. The decolonization of the British Empire, the success of industrial agriculture, and the purging of holistic ideas from medicine side-lined organic farming advocates who were viewed increasingly as cranks and kooks. Organic farming advocates continued to spread their anti-chemical farming message through a small community that deeply influenced Rachel Carson’s ideas in Silent Spring, a book that helped to legitimize anti-chemical concerns. The organic farming movement re-entered the scientific mainstream in the 1980s only with the reluctant backing of government policy. It has continued to grow in popularity ever since and explains why organic farming continues to inspire those who seek to align agriculture and health.

The Global History of Organic Farming 1st Table of contents:

1. Roots of the Organic Challenge
Agriculture before the Industrial Age
The Agricultural Revolution
The Law of Return
Ecology and Holism
Desiccation Theory
Forestry and Organic Farming
Conclusion
2. The Cultural Soil of Organic Farming
Agrarianism
Agriculture and the Problem of Health in Modern Society
Romantic Farm Literature
Biodynamics
German Biological Farming
Conclusion
3. Albert Howard and the World as Shropshire
4. The Howards in India
Howard before Organic Farming
Indore
5. The Search for Pre-Modern Wisdom
The Prime Case Study: The Hunzas
6. The Compost Wars
Shift from Farmers to Gardeners
7. To the Empire and Beyond
The Growth of Organic Farming Activism
Albert Howard’s Last Years
The Death of Imperial Science
Desiccation Theory and South Africa
Louise Howard and the Environmental Movement
Conclusion
8. The Globalization of Organic Farming
Organic Farming in Britain
Organic Farming in the United States
Japan
Conclusion
9. The 1980s to the Present
The USDA and Organic Certification in the United States
Certification in the European Union
The Global Organic World
10. Organic Farming and the Challenge of Globalization
Organic Farming and Empire
The Environmental Movement
The Future of Organic Farming

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