This document discusses the environmental benefits of organic farming compared to conventional agriculture. Organic farming practices minimize environmental pollution by avoiding synthetic pesticides and fertilizers. This reduces impacts on biodiversity, air and water quality, and climate change. Specifically, organic farming supports more species diversity on farms and in surrounding areas. It also decreases greenhouse gas emissions and pollution of water and soil through reduced chemical inputs and tighter nutrient cycles. While organic farming may not always outperform conventional agriculture economically, the document argues that its environmental benefits warrant further consideration and study through methods like life cycle assessment.
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contain synthetic pesticide traces. The soil structure on organic farms is much better leading to
less pollution from nitrate and is healthier for the crop plant, and environmentally organic is bet-
ter than the other forms and is chemical free [5]. In contrast agriculture with use of pesticides and
other chemical materials have been reported to produce foods leading to cancer [5].
2. Biodiversity
Natural ecosystems have been providing a home for plants and animals. The current diversity
in species is result of million years of evolution of such systems. However, when we simplify
natural ecosystems to anthropogenic ones, home of unwanted plants and animals appear to be
limited. A contemporary agriculture system destroys complex ecosystem such as forests and
rangelands through clear cutting. Furthermore using chemical based substances to get rid of
pests and weeds make the problem doubles.
Organic farming have less impact on hedge bottom vegetation, with hedges on organic farms
displaying significantly higher species diversity than those on conventional farms [2].
Evidence from comparative studies under arable regimes indicated a general trend for higher
earthworm abundance under organic management. There have been reports that the presence of
grass-clover leys within organic rotations is the principal reason for the significantly higher non-
pest butterfly, spiders, beetles abundance [2].
3. Air pollution and climate change
A major theme in organic practices is to operate in tight nutrient cycles to minimise losses to the
air and water reserves [3]. There is a reduction in air pollution not just from the lower carbon
footprint but also from the absence of chemical sprays which get into the atmosphere. There
have been tremendous amount of chemicals which are used to direct lands to yield only desired
products and not pests and weeds. This is especially can be tracked after agricultural revolution
through using planes and tanks of materials.
Agriculture is both cause and victim of climate change. According to the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the annual amount of greenhouse gases emitted by the ag-
ricultural sector is estimated about six giga- tonnes CO2
in 2005. This represents approximately
10-12% of total greenhouse gases. As a consequence an organic farming system is only substitute
to produce healthy products without any side effects locally (air pollution) and globally (climate
change).
4. Water and soil pollution
Intensive aquaculture may leave substantial amount of nutrients and poisons to water bodies
[4]. Water pollution is largely associated with the use and discharge of water in both animal
and plant farming. For instance in a fish pond each time water is exchanged, wastewater is
discharged to the surrounding surface waters. The wastewater carries a number of pollutants,
reflected in the selected indicators. These pollutants ultimately stem from chemicals, fertilizers
and feed added to the ponds [4]. Therefore in an organic farming, water pollution is lower, as
there is much reduced eutrophication of chemical inputs. Soil structure on organic farms is much
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better leading to less pollution from nitrate and is healthier for the crop plant, and that environ-
mentally organic is better than the other forms and is chemical free [5].
5. Summary and conclusion
This paper has highlighted the most environmental benefits of organic farming compared to con-
ventional agriculture. It was discussed that the main environmental costs of non-organic farming
are narrowing biodiversity and increasing different types of pollution (e.g. water, air, soil). How-
ever, if an organic farming is preferred a number of environmental benefits will be met.Aholistic
assessment can be seen in table1 [6].
Organic agriculture perform : Much better Better The same Worse
Biodiversity and landscape X
• Floral diversity X
• Faunal diversity X
• Habitat diversity X
• Landscape X
Soil X
• Soil organic matter X
• Biological activity X
• Soil structure X
• Soil erosion X
Ground and surface water X
Nitrate leaching X
Pesticides X
Climate and air X
• CO2
X
• N2
O X
• CH4
X
• NH3
X
• Pesticides X
Farm input and output X
• Nutrient use X
• Water use X
• Energy use X
Table 1. Assessment of organic farming compared to conventional agriculture
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The author suggests that more local studies should be taken to compare and quantify the eco-
nomical and environmental trade off between organic and non-organic farming. A life cycle as-
sessment is an efficient approach to compare these two by addressing a holistic approach.
6. References
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