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Healthy soil is the real key to feeding the world

  • Written by David R. Montgomery, Professor of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington
imagePlanting a diverse blend of crops and cover crops, and not tilling, helps promote soil health. Catherine Ulitsky, USDA/Flickr, CC BY

One of the biggest modern myths about agriculture is that organic farming is inherently sustainable. It can be, but it isn’t necessarily. After all, soil erosion from chemical-free tilled fields undermined the...

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