Farming and the Environment

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Mon, 09/08/2014 - 12:00am
How organic agriculture can feed the world, and why it must.
"Organic agriculture can feed the world," says Catherine Badgley who teaches Ecology and the Evolution of Agriculture at the University of Michigan. Here she talks with Old Mole Bill Resnick about the impact of industrial agriculture on our climate and how our food could be produced with a much lighter carbon footprint.  You can read a paper by her on this topic here (PDF).

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