Does organic farming reduce environmental impacts?--a meta-analysis of European research.

By Hanna Tuomisto, I. Hodge, P. Riordan, David W. Macdonald. Journal of Environmental Management, 2012

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

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The New Integrated Pest Management Paradigm for the Modern Age (2019, neutral): “A meta-analysis of European research by Tuomisto et al. (2012) identified both positive and negative impacts of organic farming in terms of nutrient management and emphasized the need to improve both organic and conventional systems for reducing negative environmental impacts and increasing yields.”
Organic Agriculture, Food Security, and the Environment (2018, background): “F or p er so na l u se o nl y. 2015), but again, avoiding mismatches between nutrient supply and plant demand can be challenging in organic systems, potentially leading to greater nutrient losses (Gomiero et al. 2011, Halberg 2012, Tuomisto et al. 2012).”
Soil Degradation and Soil Quality in Western Europe: Current situation and future perspectives (2014, background): “Another study also reported that organic farms in Europe tend to have higher SOC contents and lower nutrient losses per unit of field area [149].”
Increasing organic food consumption: An integrating model of drivers and barriers (2020, background): “…lower pesticide use and the exclusion of chemical fertilizers are partly compensated as organic agriculture tends to have lower yields, whichmeans that more land is required to produce the same amount of food (Jungbluth et al., 2000; Muller et al., 2017; Treu et al., 2017; Tuomisto et al., 2012).”
Low carbon lifestyles: A framework to structure consumption strategies and options to reduce carbon footprints (2016, background): “This is true for example in case of organic products (Tuomisto et al., 2012).”
Agri-Food Markets towards Sustainable Patterns (2020, background): “Nevertheless, some studies show that organic systems often produce an average yield about 20%–25% lower than conventional agriculture [351,353,358] and that the latter is therefore preferable to the organic method to achieve food security because of its higher productivity per unit area [358–360].”
Exploring pro-environmental food purchasing behaviour: An empirical analysis of Italian consumers (2018, background): “Although organic and conventional farming systems are not easily comparable with regards to global warming potential and effects on climate change, the main benefits clearly recognized to the organic agriculture are the reduced negative impacts on biodiversity and enhanced animal welfare and water a”
Ecological intensification of agriculture — sustainable by nature (2014, result): “The ability of ecologically intensive systems to contribute to ecosystem service provision and to system regulation in the face of external shocks such as climate change has been recently reviewed, usually in comparison with conventional systems [11,56–61].”
Land‐use intensity and the effects of organic farming on biodiversity: a hierarchical meta‐analysis (2014, background): “While there have been previous meta-analyses comparing conventional vs. organic farming and their biodiversity and environmental impacts (Bengtsson, Ahnstr€om & Weibull 2005; Bat ary et al. 2011; Seufert, Ramankutty & Foley 2012; Tuomisto et al. 2012), we believe that a new analysis is still timely.”
Making Conventional Agriculture Environmentally Friendly: Moving beyond the Glorification of Organic Agriculture and the Demonization of Conventional Agriculture (2018, result): “Other studies [79,90] such as the 2016 evaluation by a team from Washington State University published in Nature Plants conclude that reliance on manure exacerbate problems of soil acidification and off-site eutrophication, with organic operations exhibiting higher leaching and emissions per unit of”