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Organic Farming Could, Maybe, Feed The World, Say Scientists
By Dan Nosowitz on February 5, 2016
It's been claimed before: Organic farming is a lark, a profitable process for a handful of farmers and an indulgence for a handful of consumers, a pie-in-the-sky dream that sounds nice but won't fly in our quest to feed the world. But a new survey suggests otherwise.
Previous studies have looked specifically at the cost or yield of organic farming, sometimes in specific countries, or at the cost of transitioning to an all-organic system. But this new survey?from John Reganold and Jonathan Wachter at Washington State University and published in February?s issue of Nature Plants?takes a more holistic view: It examines 40 years of studies to figure out if it would be possible to rejigger the system to feed the world with organic food...
By Dan Nosowitz on February 5, 2016
It's been claimed before: Organic farming is a lark, a profitable process for a handful of farmers and an indulgence for a handful of consumers, a pie-in-the-sky dream that sounds nice but won't fly in our quest to feed the world. But a new survey suggests otherwise.
Previous studies have looked specifically at the cost or yield of organic farming, sometimes in specific countries, or at the cost of transitioning to an all-organic system. But this new survey?from John Reganold and Jonathan Wachter at Washington State University and published in February?s issue of Nature Plants?takes a more holistic view: It examines 40 years of studies to figure out if it would be possible to rejigger the system to feed the world with organic food...
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