United Nations Learns That Organic Agriculture Can Feed The World And Help The Environment

It turns out that spraying fossil fuel-based synthetic fertilizers and pesticides all over the land is not the only way to feed people. Danish researchers told a United Nations conference last weekend that organic agriculture could feed the world and protect the environment.

In part by encouraging a diversity of crops, organic farming could help hungry people in sub Saharan Africa by reducing their need to import food.  It also would relieve farmers of the need to buy expensive chemical inputs common to unsustainable industrial agriculture.

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