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About Ronnie Cummins

Ronnie Cummins is co-founder and international director of the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) and its Mexico affiliate, Vía Orgánica. Cummins has been active as a writer and activist since the 1960s, with extensive experience in public education, grassroots mobilization, and marketplace pressure campaigns. Over the past two decades he has served as director of U.S. and international campaigns dealing with sustainable agriculture issues including food safety, genetic engineering, factory farming, and global warming. Cummins has published hundreds of articles in the alternative and mainstream press. He is also the author of "Genetically Engineered Food: A Self-Defense Guide for Consumers,” and a series of children’s books called "Children of the World.”

Entries by Ronnie Cummins

IFOAM Organics International: Why the French “4 Per 1000” Initiative?

12/15/2015/by Ronnie Cummins

France officially launches the “4 per 1000 Initiative” to combat climate change and feed the world through regenerative agriculture.

Ronnie Cummins: A Message of Hope From Paris COP21

12/15/2015/by Ronnie Cummins

An interview with Ronnie Cummins International Director of the Organic Consumers Association and Regeneration International, from the 2015 UN World Climate Summit. Ronnie explains how consumers and farmers can unite to launch a global regeneration movement.

Mother Earth Day 2015: Regenerating the Soil and Reversing Global Warming

11/19/2015/by Ronnie Cummins

Starting today April 22, embracing what the United Nations has designated as the “Year of the Soil,” let’s look at our planetary crisis from an entirely different, and more hopeful perspective. By practicing regenerative organic agriculture we can reverse climate change and heal the planet.

From ‘Sustainable’ to ‘Regenerative’—The Future of Food

10/30/2015/by Ronnie Cummins

The word “sustainability” is meaningless to consumers and the public. It’s overused, misused and it has been shamelessly co-opted by corporations for the purpose of greenwashing. Andre Leu and Ronnie Cummins propose a new term – a Regeneration Revolution. And it goes well beyond “sustainability.”

Regeneration: Global Transformation in Catastrophic Times

10/30/2015/by Ronnie Cummins

A growing number of climate, food, environment, health and justice advocates are embracing and promoting a world-changing concept: regeneration.

Meet the ‘Regenerators’

10/13/2015/by Ronnie Cummins

“What we are talking about, is regenerating a new democracy, regenerating new economies, regenerating agriculture which is at the heart of the problem, but can be heart of solution,” says Dr. Vandana Shiva

Climate Catastrophe: Surviving the 21st Century

09/20/2015/by Ronnie Cummins

The climate, energy, and political catastrophe we are facing is mind-boggling and frightening. Yet there is still time to save ourselves, to move beyond psychological denial, despair, or false optimism.

Food Fight 2015: Taking Down the Degenerators

09/04/2015/by Ronnie Cummins

Welcome to Degeneration Nation. After decades of self-destructive business-as-usual—empire-building, waging wars for fossil fuels, selling out government to the highest bidder, lacing the environment and the global food supply with GMOs —we’ve reached a new low, physically and morally.

The Crisis: Regeneration or Degeneration?

08/11/2015/by Ronnie Cummins

‘If governments won’t solve the climate, hunger, health, and democracy crises, then the people will.‘ – Dr.Vandana Shiva, speaking at the founding meeting of Regeneration International, La Fortuna de San Carlos, Costa Rica, June 8, 2015.