&quot;Organic&quot; methods produce considerably less food per unit of land (and other inputs) than conventional farming [0] (that being one of the reasons for the price difference). How does that make it &quot;more sustainable&quot; ?<p>&quot;<i>Right now, roughly 800 million people suffer from hunger and malnutrition, and about 16 million of those will die from it17. If we were to switch to entirely organic farming, the number of people suffering would jump by 1.3 billion, assuming we use the same amount of land that we&#x27;re using now.</i>&quot;[0]<p>[0]<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;science-sushi&#x2F;httpblogsscientificamericancomscience-sushi20110718mythbusting-101-organic-farming-conventional-agriculture&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;science-sushi&#x2F;httpblogss...</a>