Organic farming and environment 

Are the organic farmers the only one to care about environment? Or have we reached a state of identical worries for every farmer in the world, whether they are organic or not.

In this article, the journalist explains that now that the awareness of the importance of preserving the soils has been raised all around the world, every farmer is concerned about having a reasonable sustainable farming system. A result of this is the new trend called low-till. Low –till agriculture means the least possible ploughing and has already resulted in less pesticides, less fertilizers, less fuel use and less soil desertification for the same yield. But low-till farmers are not doing organic as they continue using herbicides such as round-up for example. Nevertheless is the system a great improvement and has the great advantage to be easy to set up.

Have we showed that it is possible to save the planet without doing organic? Can we save the earth and still use Monsanto round up? Or is it just the first step in a far longer path of improvement to reach a world of perfectly sustainable farming? 

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Carrefour launches nation’s first RSPO certified cooking oil 
 

With the recent controversy with French ecology minister Segolene Royal about Nutella and palm Oil, we were thinking that Monoculture of Palm for Palm Oil could be a good topic to start ASF articles and debates. This article deals with a new Product from Indonesian Carrefour: a RSPO certified cooking oil. RSPO (Round table of Sustainable Palm Oil) is a label that guarantees the product to be eco-friendly and not dangerous for the environment and especially for tropical rainforest which are destroyed to be replaced by palm monoculture. This is now a well-known problem, and even food industry has decided to work in the way of a more sustainable system. Nevertheless, while the deed is beyond critics, the reasons behind this marketing strategy and the reliability of the label are more controversial. 

What is you opinion about palm oil and RSPO ?
Do you think RSPO is useless, or it's still better than nothing ? Any of you have observed the work of this organism somewhere in the world ?
Do you think palm oil is important for local population, coming with jobs, money, or instead, help a minority, and leaving to worst condition the major part of the local population ?
Please feel free to comment under the facebook post, and debate all together about this topic"

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