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Vandana Shiva

Vandana Shiva, physicist, philosopher and activist, was born in the city of Dehradun, located at the bottom of the Himalayas. She is known as an eloquent speaker and provocative writer that fights for...

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Selman Waksman

Selman Abraham Waksman was born of Jewish descent in Novaya Priluka in the Ukraine. He immigrated to New Jersey, America at 22 years of age.In 1915, he graduated at Rutgers University with a degree in...

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Renate Kunast

Renate is a strong supporter of sustainable agriculture and is now using her position as Federal German Agricultural Minister to pursue that aim.Renate Kunast was born in Recklinghausen in...

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Raoul Lemaire

Raul Lemaire's acquaintance with Jean Boucher, a specialist on the subject of humus, led to the Lemaire-Boucher method of natural farming that became popular in France.Raoul Lemaire was already working...

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Rachel Carson

Writer, scientist, and ecologist, Rachel Carson, grew up simply in the rural river town of Springdale, Pennsylvania. Her mother bequeathed to her a life-long love of nature and the living world that...

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Prince Charles

Eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, christened Charles Philip Arthur George.Duke of Cornwall, Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester, Knight of the Garter, Knight of the Thistle. In the...

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Philip Jones Griffiths

Philip Jones Griffiths was born in Rhuddlan, Wales in 1936. While studying pharmacy in Liverpool he became a part-time photographer for The Manchester Guardian, and later joined The Observer newspaper....

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Patrick Holden

Patrick Holden, director of the Soil Association since 1995, has been involved in the organic movement for 28 years, initially as a full time organic farmer (1973-1988) and for the last 14 years...

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Napoleon Patricios

Napoleon & Athena Patricios travelled for most of their lives between their home country in the Mediterranean and the Southern hemisphere.Enjoying fresh produce from their own vegetable gardens and...

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Masanobu Fukuoka

Masanobu Fukuoka received the Magsaysay prize for his world-wide contribution to the well-being of mankind in 1988. In the last 20 years he applied his method with the greening of desert areas. In...

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Maria Yiakoulis

Maria is a director of ORGANIC (Ltd).Born in Sydney, Australia, she comes from a lineage of agriculturists and olive growers. Maria studied archaeology at Macquarie University where she developed and...

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Maria Bigler

Hans Muller & Maria Bigler pioneered an organic approach to agriculture with the German microbiologist, Hans Peter Rusch.Hans and Maria both grew up in Switzerland on separate farms in the Emmental...

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Lord Northbourne

The first use of the term organic in the agricultural sense was by Lord Northbourne in his 1940 work Look to the Land."The best can only spring from that kind of biological completeness which has been...

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Lawrence Hills

Lawrence Hills was the driving force behind The Henry Doubleday Research Association (HDRA), which began in 1954.As an horticulturalist he had a keen interest in organic growing, but he earned his...

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Jerome Irving Rodale

Having a lifelong interest in health and wellbeing and through his success as a publisher, J.I. Rodale's message popularised the organic movement in America.During the depression, the Rodale family...

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Jean Boucher

The collaboration between Jean Boucher and his fellow countryman Raoul Lemaire popularised the Lemair-Boucher method of natural farming in France.Jean Boucher specialised in soil life in 1936 during...

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Jamie Oliver

"I was born in May 1975 and straight into the business, really. My dad runs a lovely pub-restaurant, The Cricketers, in Clavering, Essex, where I grew up. As soon as I was old enough to peer over the...

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Henry Doubleday

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Hans Peter Rusch

Hans Peter Rusch developed a test to determine the level of soil fertility. He collaborated with Hans Muller and his wife Maria Muller to pioneer organic agriculture in Switzerland and the Germanic...

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Hans Muller

Hans Muller & Maria Bigler pioneered an organic approach to agriculture with the German microbiologist, Hans Peter Rusch.Hans and Maria both grew up in Switzerland on separate farms in the Emmental...

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