Strategies for feeding the world more sustainably with organic agriculture

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: 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
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01410-w