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[h=1]Organic Farming Could, Maybe, Feed The World, Say Scientists[/h] 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...