Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

A global meta-analysis of yield stability in organic and conservation agriculture

  • Samuel Knapp,
  • Marcel G. A. van der Heijden

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05956-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Yields vary between different cropping systems, though their temporal stability has not been quantified. Here, Knapp and van der Heijden present a meta-analysis showing that yields in organic agriculture have, per unit food produced, a lower temporal stability.