permaculture

[Toby Hemenway <toby@patternliteracy.com>]

The Rodale Institute has also done research showing that organic methods 
outperform chemical/industrial food production. I don't have the reference 
but Google and their website would surely lead you to it.

Toby
http://patternliteracy.com


On Apr 26, 2012, at 6:26 AM, Dieter Brand wrote:

> 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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