Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Strategies for feeding the world more sustainably with organic agriculture

  • Adrian Muller,
  • Christian Schader,
  • Nadia El-Hage Scialabba,
  • Judith Brüggemann,
  • Anne Isensee,
  • Karl-Heinz Erb,
  • Pete Smith,
  • Peter Klocke,
  • Florian Leiber,
  • Matthias Stolze,
  • Urs Niggli

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01410-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Organic agriculture requires fewer inputs but produces lower yields than conventional farming. Here, via a modeling approach, Muller et al. predict that if food waste and meat consumption are reduced, organic agriculture could feed the world without requiring cropland expansion.