A 30 year scientific trial shows that organic practices can counteract up to 40 percent of global greenhouse gas output. A scientific trial of organic and conventional farming practices has proved that organic practices can be the single biggest way to mitigate climate change.
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Scientists at the Rodale Institute in the USA have proved that organic farming practices can remove about 7,000 kilos of carbon dioxide from the air each year and sequester it in a hectare of farmland.
The scientists estimated that if all of America’s 434 million acres of cropland were converted to organic practices, it would be the equivalent of taking 217 million cars off the road. This is nearly 88 percent of all cars in the USA and more than a third of all the cars in the world. According to Paul Hepperly, Ph.D., Research Director at The Rodale Institute and Fulbright Scholar, “We’ve shown that organic practices can do better than any one thought at sequestering carbon, and could counteract up to 40 percent of global greenhouse gas output.”
The important point about this ground breaking research is that the amount of CO2. Sequestered is based on what has been achieved through current organic farming practices. This is not a theoretical estimate as in some of the tree plantation models or unproven like the millions being spent on clean coal or mechanical geo sequestration trials.
This has been achieved now by organic farmers in the USA, Australia and around the world.
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