Diversification practices reduce organic to conventional yield gap

By Lauren C. Ponisio, L. M’Gonigle, Kevi C. Mace, J. Palomino, P. de Valpine, C. Kremen. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 2015

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Subfields: Ecology, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Plant Science

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Organic Agriculture, Food Security, and the Environment (2018, background): “Three scientifically more rigorous meta-analyses of organic-conventional crop yield comparisons were published in the last few years (de Ponti et al. 2012, Ponisio et al. 2015, Seufert et al. 2012).”
Corn yield response to winter cover crops: An updated meta-analysis (2017, result): “…the number of publications, and in some cases revisiting the structure of the supporting data sets, has resulted in a major shift of the conclusions from previous meta-analyses, such as the case of organic versus conventional yields (Badgley et al. 2007; Seufert et al. 2012; Ponisio et al. 2015).”
Organic versus Conventional Cropping Sustainability: A Comparative System Analysis (2018, methodology): “The meta-analysis conducted by Ponisio et al. [86] further revealed that multicropping and increasing rotation length can further reduce the yield gap between conventional and organic systems by 4–9%.”
Evidence that organic farming promotes pest control (2018, background): “Whereas provisioning services 9,10 , as well as some regulating services such as carbon sequestration 11 and pollination 12 are well studied in organic cropping systems, other important ecological functions and ecosystem services supported by biodiversity in organic farming remain poorly explored…”
Biological control using invertebrates and microorganisms: plenty of new opportunities (2018, background): “Simplistic because it ignores a multitude of other approaches to pest, disease and weed control that we summarize below under IPM, erroneous as sufficient healthy food can be produced without synthetic pesticides (e.g., IPES-Food 2016; Ponisio et al. 2014; UN 2017), and misleading in that it minimiz”
COCOA AND TOTAL SYSTEM YIELDS OF ORGANIC AND CONVENTIONAL AGROFORESTRY VS. MONOCULTURE SYSTEMS IN A LONG-TERM FIELD TRIAL IN BOLIVIA (2016, neutral): “…that analysed ORG and CONV management practices have shown that even though their average long-term yields are 10–30% lower (de Ponti et al. , 2012; Ponisio et al. , 2015; Seufert et al. , 2012), ORG farming systems exhibit several ecological and economic advantages, particularly a sustainable…”
Agroforestry is paying off – Economic evaluation of ecosystem services in European landscapes with and without agroforestry systems (2019, background): “price schemes and this can hamper their adoption (Ponisio et al. 2014).”
Organic Farming and Small-Scale Farmers: Main Opportunities and Challenges (2017, background): “…issue of research, it should be noted that not only is the overall amount of 564 OF research is globally less than research of conventional systems (Ponisio et al., 2015), but the 565 majority of researches have also conducted their studies mainly in developed countries rather 566 than the…”
Agroecology: Principles for the Conversion and Redesign of Farming Systems (2016, background): “A consistent yield gap of 19-25% is reported when comparing organic and conventional agricultural systems, but interestingly the yield gap is reduced substantially when organic farmers adopt multi-cropping and complex crop rotations, evincing the “production syndrome” [25].”