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Can organic farming feed Africa?
By KPLU
Credit CIAT International Center for Tropical Agriculture
“This is not an argument that organic can or cannot feed the world,” said John Reganold, regents professor of Soil Science and Agroecology at Washington State University in Pullman. “No one system can feed the world.”
By Lisa Stiffler, special correspondent
When you consider that one in seven people worldwide will go to bed tonight hungry, it does seem fair to ask: Can organic deliver the goods for the developing world?
New research says yes – but not everywhere and not for everything.
