Environmental, Energetic, and Economic Comparisons of Organic and Conventional Farming Systems

By D. Pimentel, P. Hepperly, J. Hanson, D. Douds, R. Seidel. 2005

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Subfields: Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Forestry

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Organic Agriculture, Food Security, and the Environment (2018, background): “In Europe, the largest organic markets in terms of total retail sales are Germany and France.”
Weed–crop competition relationships differ between organic and conventional cropping systems (2009, background): “Additional field site and experiment details can be found in Liebhardt et al. (1989), Lotter et al. (2003) and Pimentel et al. (2005).”
The Role of Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in Weed Seed Consumption: A Review (2015, background): “For example, total weed control costs in the United States alone have been estimated to be approximately 27 billion USD yr21 (Pimentel et al. 2005).”
Temporal Yield Variability under Conventional and Alternative Management Systems (2007, background): “In contrast, Pimentel et al. (2005) found that crop yields in organically managed systems were similar to those in conventional systems.”
Using Digestate and Biochar as Fertilizers to Improve Processing Tomato Production Sustainability (2020, background): “Different works also reported that the agrosystem biodiversity is improved in the OFS [5,7,8].”
Pest Management in Food Systems: An Economic Perspective (2012, background): “(84), for example, find that organic farms do fare better on a number of sustainability indicators, such as soil organic matter.”
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): “First, organic management can produce higher yields than conventional management under extreme climate conditions such as drought or deluge (Lotter et al. 2003, Pimentel et al. 2005).”
Low carbon agriculture: Objectives and policy pathways (2012, background): “…issue here and that such a switch from conventional farming would result in reduced production (Mader et al.2002) Others argue that organic farming need not result in lower yields (Pimentel et al.2005) though it can be questioned whether this is the case for large-scale mechanised farming.”
Potential long-term benefits of no-tillage and organic cropping systems for grain production and soil improvement (2007, background): “This 3-yr rotation is typical of organic systems used in other long-term experiments (Pimentel et al., 2005; Marriott and Wander, 2006).”
Does organic farming reduce environmental impacts?--a meta-analysis of European research. (2012, background): “combining the research from various impact categories (Gomiero et al., 2008; Hansen et al., 2001; Pimentel et al., 2005).”
Organic versus Conventional Cropping Sustainability: A Comparative System Analysis (2018, background): “Pimentel et al., 2005 [15] Soil C levels in animal and legume-based organic cropping systems were signiﬁcantly higher than conventional systems, 981, 574, 293 kg ha − 1 , respectively.”