Organic agriculture cannot feed the world

By D. Connor. 2008

255 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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In Agronomy and Crop Science

1. J. Timsina
2. David Zilberman
3. Gina Waterfield
4. T. D. Ponti
5. Eva‐Marie Meemken
6. Steven Van Passel
7. Fatemeh Taheri
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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Albie F. Miles
2. J. Timsina
3. David Zilberman
4. Gina Waterfield
5. T. D. Ponti
6. Eva‐Marie Meemken
7. Steven Van Passel
8. Fatemeh Taheri

Citations in the corpus

• Pest Management in Food Systems: An Economic Perspective (2012, background): “A primary criticism of organic agriculture from the perspective of social welfare is that it cannot produce enough food to sustain the world population, particularly not on the same amount of land as conventional agriculture (82).”
• Organic Farming and Small-Scale Farmers: Main Opportunities and Challenges (2017, methodology): “However, this method has some limitations as cover crops 484 cannot be used as a substitute for nitrogen fertilizer (Connor, 2008).”
• Organic Agriculture, Food Security, and the Environment (2018, background): “For developing countries, Badgley et al. (2007) mostly compared yields of crops that had received high levels of organic nutrients as the organic version with crops that had received very little or no fertilizer as the conventional version (Connor 2008).”
• Lower average yields but similar yield variability in organic versus conventional horticulture. A meta-analysis (2017, background): “However, it also raises concerns regarding its capacity to produce enough food and feed to meet the demand of a wealthier, growing world population (Cassman 2007; Connor 2008, 2013).”
• Can Organic Sources of Nutrients Increase Crop Yields to Meet Global Food Demand? (2018, methodology): “The results and conclusions of these three studies [9,12,29] were heavily disputed by Cassman [33], Connor [16], Goulding et al.”
• Taking Complexity in Food Systems Seriously: An Interdisciplinary Analysis (2014, background): “Claims that modern organic crop production systems provide yields comparable to conventional agriculture have been attacked as misleading (Connor, 2008).”
• The crop yield gap between organic and conventional agriculture (2012, result): “A result that was heavily disputed by Cassman (2007), Connor (2008), and Goulding et al. (2009), as they argued that the yield data used by Badgley et al. and the assumptions made on nutrient availability in organic systems, particularly nitrogen, were too optimistic.”
• Synthesis, part of a Special Feature on A Social-Ecological Analysis of Diversified Farming Systems: Benefits, Costs, Obstacles, and Enabling Policy Frameworks Ecosystem Services in Biologically Diversified versus Conventional Farming Systems: Benefits, Externalities, and Trade-Offs (2012, background): “However, this estimate did not take into account geographic variation in temperature and water availability that would preclude use of off-season cover crops in some regions (Connor 2008).”