the reason that industrial agriculture remains dominant is that it's so much more productive, right?
Wrong.
According to a new study in the Feb. 15 edition of Environmental Science & Technology, a journal of the American Chemical Society, sustainable agriculture techniques like those mentioned above, introduced to developing world farms over the last decade, improved farm yields by an average of 79% in four years. And not just in a limited set of locations: the study covered 286 different projects in 57 developing countries. That's over 12 million farms, or 37 million hectares -- about 3% of the cultivated area in poor nations.
WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Agricultural Sustainability = Agricultural Productivity:
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