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[Dieter Brand <diebrand@yahoo.com>]

Thanks Ute, I will have a close look at those references and report back.

Dieter

--- On Thu, 4/26/12, Ute Bohnsack <sustag@eircom.net> wrote:

> From: Ute Bohnsack <sustag@eircom.net>
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] Yield comparisons with industrial farming?
> To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thursday, April 26, 2012, 11:45 AM
> Hi Dieter,
> Check out http://www.fao.org/docrep/005/y4137e/y4137e00.htm
> Organic agriculture, environment and food security (FAO
> 2002).
> 
> And more recently:
> Right to Food: Agroecology outperforms large-scale
> industrial farming for global food security, says UN expert
> http://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=10178
> 
> That should give you some pointers. You could also google
> "Miguel Altieri" with
> appropriate keywords. He is one of the foremost academics in
> agroecology and has
> looked at these issues as far as I remember from doing a
> course with him several
> years ago.
> 
> 
> Best,
> Ute
> 
> On 26/04/2012 10:27:43, Dieter Brand (diebrand@yahoo.com)
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I remember reading that Egyptian farming a few thousand
> years ago produced
> > a higher yield per acre than industrial farming in the
> US today.
> > 
> > My files and data resource       
> ...
> 
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