Environment

Dec 17, 2022

Organic and Climate Change: Look at the Big Picture

Picture by Neil Palmer (CIAT) n.palmer@cgiar.org

Misunderstandings about organic agriculture abound, and can be clearly seen in a recent misleading article published in US...

Nov 22, 2022

Healthy soils produce more nutrient dense food

By David Montgomery and Anne Biklé

The original proponents of organic agriculture argued that healthy soils produced healthier food, a...

Sep 23, 2022

Scientists develop land-use decision-making tool for organic

Biodiversity is a term used to refer to the number of species in one region or ecosystem, and for the first time,...

Aug 29, 2022

Combining organic wheat farming and sheep grazing can lower global warming potential

A collaborative study from USDA and Montana State University scientists delved “far into the weeds” in evaluating the global warming potential in farming organic wheat when combining sheep grazing...

Aug 23, 2022

Planting more than one crop with strawberries can benefit quality and bees

When farmers increase the number of crops in their fields, this in turn changes the landscape, and wild pollinators stand to benefit, according to a paper published yesterday in...