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  • A meta-analysis assessing the relative yields of organic and conventional agriculture shows that organic yields are on average lower, but that the magnitude of the difference is dependent on context.

    • Verena Seufert
    • Navin Ramankutty
    • Jonathan A. Foley
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 485, P: 229-232

  • The ability of organic agriculture to feed the world population remains contentious. A biophysical optimization model indicates the extent to which nitrogen availability could limit the expansion of organic production systems and what measures could alleviate this limitation.

    • Pietro Barbieri
    • Sylvain Pellerin
    • Thomas Nesme
    Research
    Nature Food
    Volume: 2, P: 363-372

  • Organic farming produces crops without using synthetic agrochemicals, but its success with pests is unclear. This study finds that organic farming promotes overall pest control but that varies by pest type, with lower pathogen pests, similar animal pests and higher weed pests than conventional agriculture.

    • Lucile Muneret
    • Matthew Mitchell
    • Adrien Rusch
    Research
    Nature Sustainability
    Volume: 1, P: 361-368

  • ‘Eating organic’ requires farming differently. Organic agriculture manages crop varieties and rotations to manage pests and nutrients. This study analyses different scenarios of organic conversion, finding that a smaller area worldwide planted with wheat, rice and maize must be offset by more nitrogen-fixing crops, such as beans, alfalfa and clover. Even then, caloric energy would fall by about 27% from current production.

    • Pietro Barbieri
    • Sylvain Pellerin
    • Thomas Nesme
    Research
    Nature Sustainability
    Volume: 2, P: 378-385

  • Indicators proposed for nutrient and pesticide pollution in the current text of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) are inadequate for tracking progress and informing policy. We highlight a set of more relevant pollution indicators that would strengthen the monitoring framework of the GBF and discuss conditions for their successful implementation.

    • Niklas Möhring
    • David Kanter
    • Paul Leadley
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 7, P: 1556-1559

  • Agricultural practices need to change to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. How to achieve the SDGs is heavily contested. Here we propose a policy framework that triggers the required transition. Organic agriculture, although not a silver bullet, is a useful component in such strategy.

    • Frank Eyhorn
    • Adrian Muller
    • Pete Smith
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Sustainability
    Volume: 2, P: 253-255