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Studies show -- Organic Can Feed the World
- Core Truths: Key Findings Behind the Benefits of Organic Food and Farming (June 2009)
Compiled by the Organic Center, discusses Organic Food and Children's Nutrition, Feeding the World, Pesticides and Children's Health, GMOs, Animal Cloning in Food and Agriculture, and more.
- Organic farming can feed the world, University of Michigan study shows (2009)
Organic farming can yield up to three times as much food on individual farms in developing countries, as low-intensive methods on the same land--according to new findings which refute the long-standing claim that organic farming methods cannot produce enough food to feed the global population.
- Regenerative Organic Farming:
A Solution to Global Warming (2008)
In a new report, the Rodale Institute calls for a dramatic shift from costly, chemical-intensive industrial farming systems to regenerative organic systems, which it says can help the world feed itself.
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Organic Farming 'Could Feed Africa' (October 2008)
Major study from the United Nations, reported in The Independent
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Myth: Sustainable Farming Methods Cannot Feed the World (July 2008)
Myth Buster Series from the Land Stewardship Project in Minnesota. 2 page PDF
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Can Organic Feed the World? (2007)
Study published by the Cambridge University Press. 6 page PDF
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Organic Ag. and the Global Food Supply (June 2006)
Research paper from the University of Michigan course, "Food, Land and Society". 23 page PDF
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