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The document discusses how organic farming can support soil health and carbon sequestration. It also talks about how organic farming productivity is greater than previously thought when factoring in environmental damage from intensive farming. The document also discusses how innovation in areas like urban farming and drones can help address the growing gap between global food production and consumption needs by 2050.

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The document discusses how organic farming can support soil health and carbon sequestration. It also talks about how organic farming productivity is greater than previously thought when factoring in environmental damage from intensive farming. The document also discusses how innovation in areas like urban farming and drones can help address the growing gap between global food production and consumption needs by 2050.

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“Livestock grazing on pasture can support soil health and carbon sequestration, and

manure can provide soil fertility for other crops.”He adds that the productivity of
organic farming is greater than previously thought, “and when the environmental and
other damage caused by high energy and chemical inputs in non-organic farming are
factored in, organic food is cheaper for society and better for the planet”.
Can we ditch intensive farming - and still feed the world?From urban farming to
drones, innovation can help fill the gap between production and consumptionFood
production around the world must rise by half in the next 30 years to sustain a
global population expected to top 10 billion by 2050.Compared with 2010, an extra
7,400tn calories will be needed a year in 2050. The UN’s Food and Agriculture
Organisation, the world’s leading body charged with care of our future food supply,
has called this year for “transformative change in our food systems”. The most
obvious alternative to industrialised intensive farming in the developed world is
organic farming. “We need an urgent shift in both production and consumption if
we’re to avert the worst consequences of climate change, including a dietary shift
towards less and better meat,” he says. Rob Percival, head of policy at the Soil
Association, says organic farming can feed the world, if consumption patterns are
adjusted to encourage those who can afford meat to eat less of it. These are the
findings of a report published in December by the World Resources Institute on the
“food gap” between current production and growing consumption.

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