Wildculture

Wildculture is the umbrella term used to include all aspects and styles of "hunting and gathering" food harvesting [Paull, J, 2008, [http://orgprints.org/13568/01/13568.pdf/ Wild Organics: A Frontier Shift from Agriculture to Wildculture] , Journal of Bio-Dynamics Tasmania, 90: 14-19] . Wildculture - harvesting the bounty of nature - was the method of food gathering prior to the development of agriculture thousands of years ago. Some wildculture has persisted side by side with agriculture, with some cultures and communities using both both styles of food acquisition, and a few reliant solely on wildculture.

As well as organic standards for agriculture, there are now standards for organic wildculture. The total hectares of wild harvested organic land now exceeds the total of certified organic agriculture land [Willer, H. et al., 2008, The World of Organic Agriculture, Statistics and Emerging Trends, IFOAM, Bonn] . Finland, Zambia and Brazil lead the world, and together account for more than half of the 33.8 million hectares of certified organic wildculture land reported in 2008. [http://orgprints.org/13568]

ee also

*Agriculture
*Organic farming

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