Beyond Pesticides

Organic Farming Competes with Chemical-Intensive Practices on Resilience, Input Costs, and Profitability

(Beyond Pesticides, September 23, 2025) A study published in European Journal of Agronomy, based on a 16-year, long-term experiment (LTE), finds that organic crops (cotton production with wheat and ...
EurekAlert!

Nature-friendly farming boosts biodiversity and yields but may require new subsidies

Farming methods that support nature improve both biodiversity and crop yields but more extensive measures may require increased government subsidies to become as profitable as conventional intensive ...
Beyond Pesticides

USDA Study Reports Pollution Control and Productivity in Organic Ag Outpaces Chemical-Intensive Ag

(Beyond Pesticides, December 9, 2025) In the Journal of Environmental Quality, researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) report that a 4-year organically managed corn-soybean-oat system ...
MaltaToday

Potatoes and intensive farming: A slow-moving threat to Malta’s groundwater

Intensive cultivation of potatoes and vegetables is steadily driving nitrate contamination into Malta’s groundwater posing a threat to the long-term sustainability of the islands’ primary potable wate ...
The Conversation

Farming with a mixture of crops, animals and trees is better for the environment and for people – evidence from Ghana and Malawi

Laura Vang Rasmussen receives funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (grant agreement 853222 FORESTDIET). Ingo Grass ...