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Re: Another Urban Legend Bites the Dust (4.00 / 3)

See page five of the first PDF I mentionned above:

19. [...] Higher labour input decreases expenses on purchased inputs by some 40% but labour costs increase by 10 to 15 precent. The main benefit of organic systems is energy efficiency [...]

Yield increase is seen in subsistence agriculture, decrease elsewhere but on average estimate is "132% more than current food production levels"

by Laurent GUERBY on Sun Jul 15th, 2007 at 07:54:42 AM EST
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Re: Another Urban Legend Bites the Dust (4.00 / 3)

Well the study De refers to seems to indicate that the yield in non-developing world is only a little less than conventional. A 15% increase in labour isn't too bad, and there's the issue of smarter, non-monoculture agriculture for the fruit trees and perennials, though I suspect that'll increase the labour requirements more.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Sun Jul 15th, 2007 at 12:47:33 PM EST
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Well, that will keep more people employed, though given the decreasing fraction of people employed in agriculture, increasing that by 15% is probably not going to make the unemployment rate look much better.

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Jul 16th, 2007 at 02:22:29 AM EST
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Another Urban Legend Bites the Dust | 55 comments (55 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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