Founded in 1972, IFOAM-Organics International is a membership-based organization working to bring true sustainability to agriculture across the globe.
IFOAM stands for the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements.
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Founded in 1972, IFOAM-Organics International is a membership-based organization working to bring true sustainability to agriculture across the globe.
IFOAM stands for the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements.
The following text, from the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM-Organics International), is included here as a resource. IFOAM circulated the code for a few years at the beginning to the 2000s, but never got enough sign on to consider the project a success. Perhaps that is a comment on purely voluntary codes for for-profit businesses.
The Principles of Health, Ecology, Fairness, and Care are the roots from which organic agriculture grows and develops. They express the contribution that organic agriculture can make to the world, and a vision to improve all agriculture in a global context. Composed as inter-connected ethical principles to inspire the organic movement — in its full diversity, they guide our development of positions, programs, and standards.