Can Organics Feed The Earth?
A hat tip to Lauri Raymond, Chief Visionary Office at Sisters & Brothers, Inc., which sells products that can be used as sauces, marinades and dressings. Back in June, we ran a piece that focused on a letter she sent us regarding organics. You can read the exchange here.A little while ago, she sent along an article based on this press release from the University of Michigan. The headline: Organic Farming Can Feed the World, U-M Study Shows. The study was shocking because the conventional wisdom is that organic growing techniques generally produce lower yields than conventional growing techniques. But these researchers said that wasnt true at least in developing countries:Organic farming can yield up to three times as much food on individual farms in developing countries, as low-intensive methods on the same landaccording to new findings which refute the long-standing claim that organic farming methods cannot produce enough food to feed the global population.Researchers from the Univers
