See:
http://journeytoforever.org/garden_organiccase.html
The case for organics
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http://www.planetark.com/avantgo/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=43040
Organic Farming Yields as Good or Better - Study
WASHINGTON - Organic farming can yield up to three times as much food
as conventional farming in developing countries, and holds its own
against standard methods in rich countries, US researchers said on
Tuesday.
They said their findings contradict arguments that organic farming --
which excludes the use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides -- is
not as efficient as conventional techniques.
My hope is that we can finally put a nail in the coffin of the idea
that you can't produce enough food through organic agriculture,
Ivette Perfecto, a professor at the University of Michigan's school
of Natural Resources and Environment, said in a statement.
She and colleagues analyzed published studies on yields from organic
farming. They looked at 293 different examples.
Model estimates indicate that organic methods could produce enough
food on a global per capita basis to sustain the current human
population, and potentially an even larger population, without
increasing the agricultural land base, they wrote in their report,
published in the journal Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems.
We were struck by how much food the organic farmers would produce,
Perfecto said.
Corporate interest in agriculture and the way agriculture research
has been conducted in land grant institutions, with a lot of
influence by the chemical companies and pesticide companies as well
as fertilizer companies, all have been playing an important role in
convincing the public that you need to have these inputs to produce
food, she added.
Story Date: 11/7/2007
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Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems
Formerly American Journal of Alternative Agriculture
Volume 22 - Issue 02
Can organic agriculture feed the world?
Catherine Badgley and Ivette Perfecto
Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, Volume 22, Issue 02, June
2007, pp 80-86
Published online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2007
Organic agriculture and the global food supply
Catherine Badgley, Jeremy Moghtader, Eileen Quintero, Emily Zakem, M.
Jahi Chappell, Katia Avilés-Vázquez, Andrea Samulon and Ivette
Perfecto
Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, Volume 22, Issue 02, June
2007, pp 86-108
Published online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2007
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