Could organic farming feed the world?

Nowadays organic farming is less than 1% of the agriculture worldwide (Crowder and Reganold, 2015). Any consumer must have realized that organic food is more expensive than conventional food. This is due to the fact that organic production methods are less efficient than conventional methods, so concomitantly, productivity drops, and this loss in production must be compensated with a higher price.

From the ecological point of view the paradox is that to produce organic we need more arable soil to get less food, so the carbon and the hydric footprint increases. So producing organic is not really good for the environment, being the main backdraft the low productivity per unit of land. Making a simple calculation if we would like to maintain the same food production, changing the agriculture system to organic, we must compensate the loss in production with more arable land, but after deforesting all the remaining wild areas, the requirement of soil but not be enough. So the answer is no.