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SUBMITTER: Seufert V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5362009 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Seufert Verena V Ramankutty Navin N
Science advances 20170310 3
Organic agriculture is often proposed as a more sustainable alternative to current conventional agriculture. We assess the current understanding of the costs and benefits of organic agriculture across multiple production, environmental, producer, and consumer dimensions. Organic agriculture shows many potential benefits (including higher biodiversity and improved soil and water quality per unit area, enhanced profitability, and higher nutritional value) as well as many potential costs including ...[more]