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Default The myth of food production "efficiency" in the "ar" debate

Torsten Brinch wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:13:00 +0000, Oz >
> wrote:
>
>> Buxqi > writes
>>> "On page 1694, agronomists report the results of the longest and most
>>> comprehensive study to date comparing organic and conventional farming,
>>> measuring many aspects of crops and soil over 21 years.

>> Unfortunately the details do not seem to be online.

>
> http://orgprints.org/5514/


Important finding stated at that site: "We found crop
yields to be 20% lower in the organic systems".

So...who gets the privilege of starving due to 20%
lower yields?