We’re honored to partner with established research institutions, universities, and non-profits in the pursuit and achievement of sound science for the public good. Our research empowers consumers and helps strengthen and expand sustainable farming to make organic even better.

The science supporting organic is (in)credible.

Projects

Benefits and Risks of Integrating Livestock Into Crops
This project is funded by the USDA Specialty Crop Multi-State Program grant to look at the benefits of livestock integration through cover-crop grazing on bacterial population dynamics, soil building...
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The Benefits of Organic Meat
The Organic Center is compiling scientific literature into a comprehensive report that highlights the environmental, animal welfare and human health benefits of organic meat. When you eat meat,...
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The Effects of Organic Farming Practices on Nitrogen Pollution
The Organic Center collaborated with Professor James Galloway’s team at the University of Virginia to investigate the effect of different farming systems on nitrogen pollution. Over the last century...
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Soil Health on Organic Farms
The Organic Center collaborated with the University of Maryland to review the science that evaluates organic methods for building soil health.      Healthy soils are essential for resilient crop...
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The Environmental Footprint of Organic Cotton
From Field Through the Supply Chain Cotton is one of the most widely grown crops in the world, and conventional cotton is one of the most chemically intensive crops with serious consequences for both...
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Improving yields through soil health practices on organic farms
Healthy soils are the backbone of our food system and essential to global food security. They are crucial for resilient crop production and they support a diversity of organisms vital to...
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Net-Positive Impacts of Organic on Climate Change
The Organic Center is collaborating with the Sustainability and Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise (SHINE) at the Harvard School of Public Health on a research project looking at the net-...
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On-Farm Biodiversity Tools
The Organic Center collaborated with Professor John Quinn at Furman University on The Healthy Farm Index (HFI) Biodiversity Calculator project to enable farmers to measure and optimize multiple...
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Organic Food and Farming as a Tool to Combat Antibiotic Resistance and Protect Public Health
Antibiotics are widely administered to conventional livestock raised for food consumption. Of particular concern is the use of antibiotics not to treat infections or prevent diseases, but to simply...
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Connecting Soil Management with Carbon Sequestration
Intensive agriculture can have devastating effects on soil health as it degrades soil aggregation and water holding capacity, prevents carbon sequestration, and leads to runoff and erosion losses....
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Organic Center study zeroes in on organic ways to beat citrus greening
The Organic Center has completed a project in collaboration with USDA-AMS that provides guidance to citrus growers on organic-compliant ways to combat citrus greening disease today! More research is...
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Organic Agriculture: Reducing occupational pesticide exposure in farmers and farmworkers
The Organic Center released a report that details the impacts of the conventional use of synthetic pesticides on farmer and farmworker health - and how organic can be used as a model to decrease the...
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