A paper published in June 2009 , asks Can organic agriculture feed the world? and argues that it cannot. (K. W. T. Goulding and A. J. Trewavas, AgBioView, June 24 2009, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden and Institute of Molecular Plant Science, University of Edinburgh).
In a recent publication, Badgley et al. (2007) claimed that organic farming, if used worldwide, would provide sufficient food for a growing world population. This claim was based on a literature survey of two kinds:
A paper published in June 2009 , asks Can organic agriculture feed the world? and argues that it cannot. (K. W. T. Goulding and A. J. Trewavas, AgBioView, June 24 2009, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden and Institute of Molecular Plant Science, University of Edinburgh).
In a recent publication, Badgley et al. (2007) claimed that organic farming, if used worldwide, would provide sufficient food for a growing world population. This claim was based on a literature survey of two kinds:
- A comparison of organic and conventional yields, assembled, so far as one can judge, from a mixture of largely research experiments of rather variable quality and sometimes unpublished material.
- An assessment of nitrogen (N) fixed by legumes from published literature. The two were then combined to calculate potential food production. The authors of the 2009 paper examine and challenge the literature basis of these claims particularly on wheat.
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