Sri Lanka’s overnight flip to organic farming has led to an economic disaster
All posts I'm seeing here are highly critical of organic farming.<p>And most are based on a very short-term picture, which ignores the long-term costs of chemical-based farming: the incredible soil depletion and insect population depletion.<p>Chem-based clearly gives higher yields for a period of 50-80 years, but what happens after that?<p>Organic/permaculture is sustainable and possible even for our large populations. It presents challenges to some other assumptions of our highly industrialized food supply chain, but that doesn't mean it can't feed the globe.<p>It just makes it harder for one or two companies to monopolize everything.