Beyond Pesticides

Organic Farming Competes with Chemical-Intensive Practices on Resilience, Input Costs, and Profitability

(Beyond Pesticides, September 23, 2025) A study published in European Journal of Agronomy, based on a 16-year, long-term experiment (LTE), finds that organic crops (cotton production with wheat and ...
Beyond Pesticides

USDA Study Reports Pollution Control and Productivity in Organic Ag Outpaces Chemical-Intensive Ag

(Beyond Pesticides, December 9, 2025) In the Journal of Environmental Quality, researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) report that a 4-year organically managed corn-soybean-oat system ...
Newsweek

Intensive Farming May Up Pandemic Risk, Myth-Busting Study Warns

Intensive animal farming may increase the risk of future pandemics, a new study has found. The findings go against the conventional wisdom that industrialized farming reduces the risk of disease ...
technologynetworks

Nature-Friendly Farming Boosts Biodiversity, With New Subsidies

Farming methods that support nature improve both biodiversity and crop yields but more extensive measures may require increased government subsidies to become as profitable as conventional intensive ...
News Medical

Intensive pig farming linked to dangerous zoonotic pathogens, study warns

In a recent study published in the journal PNAS, researchers investigated how large-scale livestock rearing may result in the emergence and transmission of novel, potentially zoonotic pathogens. They ...
The Conversation

Farming with a mixture of crops, animals and trees is better for the environment and for people – evidence from Ghana and Malawi

Laura Vang Rasmussen receives funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (grant agreement 853222 FORESTDIET). Ingo Grass ...