An English agronomist who wrote influential treatises on agriculture, pointing out the complexity inherent in natural systems and the problems with reducing growth to a simple fertilizer formula in large-scale farming. He warned against the dangers of artificial fertilizer and, though he lost out, was influential to future organic farmers.
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Chapter 9: Big Organic
...now a vice-president. When he was first starting out, Kahn relied on the writings of Sir Albert Howard , an English agronomist who warned against the dangers of artificial fertilizer in the 1940s....
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