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Organic Farming Could Feed The Hungry
By reli4nt
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
-- co-author Ivette Perfecto
A three year study from the University of Michigan concluded that organic farming could yield as much as three times as much food for developing countries without putting additional farmland into production.
This finding refutes the widely held belief that organic practices would be detrimental to farming in developing nations. Organic farming would not only be more profitable and productive, but also more cost-effective, sustainable, and more ecologically friendly.
Developing nations were singled out as beneficiaries in this study because they frequently cannot afford expensive fertilizers and pesticides which promote high yields while the resources needed for organic farming are more readily available.
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