ABSTRACT
European organic agriculture emerged in 1924 when Rudolf Steiner held his course on biodynamic agriculture. In the 1930s and 1940s, organic agriculture was developed in Britain by Lady Eve Balfour and Sir Albert Howard, in Switzerland by Hans Müller, in the United States by J. I. Rodale, and in Japan by Masanobu Fukuoka. Since the beginning of the 1990s, development of organic agriculture in Europe has been supported by government subsidies. In many other countries of the world, organic agriculture was established because of the growing demand for organic products in Europe, the United States, and Japan. Today, organic farming is gaining increasing acceptance by the public at large.
