Food security and global warming: Monsanto versus organic
Organic farming beats genetically engineered corn as response to rising global temperatures
One promising solution appeared in an article published in BioScience in 2005. The authors outlined the Rodale Institute's Farming Systems Trial, a long-term comparison of organic and conventional farming systems conducted between 1981 and 2002. Significantly, the trials found that organic production yielded equivalently to conventional systems after a transition period. Yet even more importantly, Rodale found that in drought conditions in which rainfall ... Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
