Some items of interest from the internet this week.

In Uganda, the growing importance of chillies as an organic input and as a cash crop is highlighted in New Vision: allafrica.com/stories/200908200303.html

Next up we have a story on Whole Foods, the US retailer that sells a lot of organic and locally sourced produce: www.alternet.org/environment/141973/is_whole_foods_sustainable_or_just_a_high-priced_hoax_i_took_a_job_there_to_find_out/

We also have news from the Caribbean of efforts to reintroduce commercial Sea Islan cotton - not organic yet, but this may come: www.sknvibes.com/Business/NewsDetails.cfm/10896

In India, there appear to be convergences between organics, food security and industrialists: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/city/ludhiana/Concern-for-food-security/articleshow/4898891.cms