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