Jane, if you consider ecological agriculture (which may or may not include organic, depending on how it’s done, but typically organic would be considered part of eco-ag practices), a great review and reference is De Schutter, O. (2010). Agroecology and the right to food. Interim report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food submitted to the 65th session of the United Nations General Assembly, 11.
I can’t remember if ECOLOG-L allows hyperlinks. I think it strips them, but if you do a Google Scholar search on what I pasted above you can get to a freely available copy on foodsecure canada’s website as well as other locations. And I will email Jane the link directly. Carola A. Haas Professor, Wildlife Ecology Dept. of Fish & Wildlife Conservation 112 Cheatham Hall (MC 0321) 310 West Campus Drive, Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061 cah...@vt.edu <mailto:cah...@vt.edu> 540-231-9269 http://www.fishwild.vt.edu/faculty/haas.htm > On Mar 21, 2017, at 1:39 PM, Jane Shevtsov <jane....@gmail.com > <mailto:jane....@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Lately, a lot of people in skeptical communities have been saying that not > only does organic agriculture use more land than conventional, it's no better > or even worse for the environment overall. What do those of you with > expertise in agroecology think about this? > > Jane > > -- > ------------- > Jane Shevtsov, Ph.D. > Lecturer and DBER Fellow, UCLA > co-founder, www.worldbeyondborders.org <http://www.worldbeyondborders.org/> > > "Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And > the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It's > shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many > more believe learning to be difficult." --Frank Herbert, Dune
