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'Can Organic feed the world ?" related Publications
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Some publications that helped me learn & think about the question of 'Can organic feed the world?' (Let me know by email if you can't access any of these papers and I'll email you a copy).  Let me know of other ones that you found helpful.  Thanks. 

Badgley C., J. Moghtader, E. Quintero, E. Zakem, M.J. Chappell, K. Aviles-Vazquez, A. Samulon, I. Perfecto. 2007. Organic agriculture and the global food supply. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems 22:86-108.

Clark M., D. Tilman. 2017. Comparative analysis of environmental impacts of agricultural production systems, agricultural input efficiency, and food choice. Environmental Research Letters 12:064016. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa6cd5.

Connor D.J. 2008. Organic agriculture cannot feed the world. Field Crops Research 106:187-190. doi: 10.1016/j.fcr.2007.11.010.

Connor D.J. 2018. Land required for legumes restricts the contribution of organic agriculture to global food security. Outlook on Agriculture 47:277-282. doi: 10.1177/0030727018805765.

de Ponti T., B. Rijk, M.K. van Ittersum. 2012. The crop yield gap between organic and conventional agriculture. Agricultural Systems 108:1-9. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2011.12.004.

Denison R.F. 2012. Darwinian agriculture Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.

Foley J.A., N. Ramankutty, K.A. Brauman, E.S. Cassidy, J.S. Gerber, M. Johnston, N.D. Mueller, C. O'Connell, D.K. Ray, P.C. West, C. Balzer, E.M. Bennett, S.R. Carpenter, J. Hill, C. Monfreda, S. Polasky, J. Rockstrom, J. Sheehan, S. Siebert, D. Tilman, D.P.M. Zaks. 2011. Solutions for a cultivated planet. Nature 478:337-342. doi: 10.1038/nature10452.

Goulding K.W.T., A.J. Trewavas, K.E. Giller. 2009. Can organic farming feed the world? : a contribution to the debate on the ability of organic farming systems to provide sustainable supplies of food, International Fertiliser Society, Cambridge.

Kirchmann H., T. Katterer, L. Bergstrom, M.A. Bolinder. 2016. Flaws and criteria for design and evaluation of comparative organic and conventional cropping systems. Field Crops Research 186:99-106.

Kirchmann H., L. Bergstrom, T. Katterer, O. Andren, R. Andersson. 2008. Can organic crop production feed the world?, In: H. Kirchmann and L. Bergstrom editors, Organic Crop Production - Ambitions and limitations, Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. pp. 39-72.

Loomis R.S. 1978. Ecological Dimensions of Medieval Agrarian Systems: An Ecologist Responds. Agricultural History 52:478-483.

Lotter D. 2015. Facing food insecurity in Africa: Why, after 30 years of work in organic agriculture, I am promoting the use of synthetic fertilizers and herbicides in small-scale staple crop production. Agriculture and Human Values 32:111-118. doi: 10.1007/s10460-014-9547-x.

Ritchie H. 2017. Is organic really better for the environment than conventional agriculture?, OurWorldinData.org.

Seufert V., N. Ramankutty, J.A. Foley. 2012. Comparing the yields of organic and conventional agriculture. Nature 485:229-U113. doi: 10.1038/nature11069.

Seufert V., N. Ramankutty. 2017. Many shades of gray—The context-dependent performance of organic agriculture. Science Advances 3. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1602638.

 

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