Organic farming often wins when we compare impacts on one unit of land, but there is no clear winner when we look at impacts per unit of food production.
As someone who has studied the environmental impacts of agriculture for many years, there are a handful of questions that I get over and over. One of them is whether we are right to assume that organic farming is better for the environment than conventional farming…
Source: Our World in Data – A project of Global Change Data Lab
Our World In Data
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