Organic agriculture in the twenty-first century

By J. Reganold, Jonathan M. Wachter. Nature Plants, 2016

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

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• Agricultural intensification reduces microbial network complexity and the abundance of keystone taxa in roots (2018, background): “, no25 till) and organic farming have been widely adopted to reduce such adverse environmental 26 effects [6, 7].”
• Organic Agriculture, Food Security, and the Environment (2018, background): “Concerning pesticides, as synthetic pesticides are banned in organic farming, the risk of pesticide pollution of water bodies is lower (Reganold & Wachter 2016).”
• Organic Farming and Small-Scale Farmers: Main Opportunities and Challenges (2017, background): “Environmental benefits of OF include biodiversity conservation, better 116 quality of soil, reducing evaporati on and water harvesting, strengthening adaptation strategies 117 and reducing greenhouse gas emissions as well as energy efficiency (Seufert et al, 2012; 118 Reganold and Wachter, 2016).”
• Cropping practices manipulate abundance patterns of root and soil microbiome members paving the way to smart farming (2018, background): “A number of practices improve the sustainability of agriculture, including organic farming [9] and reduced or no-tillage [10].”
• 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].”
• Potential Benefits and Risks for Soil Health Derived From the Use of Organic Amendments in Agriculture (2019, background): “Organic farming relies on natural ecological processes to maintain the integrity of the soil ecosystem and, concomitantly, the provision of ecosystem services, and it is particularly focused on long-term agricultural productivity [13].”
• The Role of Soil Microorganisms in Plant Mineral Nutrition—Current Knowledge and Future Directions (2017, background): “Another factor is that organically bound nutrients are more stable in the soil compared to mineral fertilizers, and therefore less prone to leaching and volatilization (Reganold and Wachter, 2016).”
• Making Conventional Agriculture Environmentally Friendly: Moving beyond the Glorification of Organic Agriculture and the Demonization of Conventional Agriculture (2018, background): “For instance, of 15 meta-analyses found in the scientific literature, 12 concluded that there was evidence that organic food was more nutritious and contained more antioxidants, vitamin C and omega-3 fatty acids than conventional produce [29].”
• Lower average yields but similar yield variability in organic versus conventional horticulture. A meta-analysis (2017, background): “…management is thus expected to be associated with lower impacts on natural resources than conventional agriculture at the local and global scales (Tuomisto et al. 2012), as well as beneficial effects on human health (e.g. regarding the absence of pesticide residues, Reganold and Wachter 2016) (Fig.”