The industrial agriculture model has been promoted with the justification that it’s the only answer to food security. However, globally, billions of people face food insecurity. Further, because of industrial agriculture, 3 billion people suffer from chronic diseases.
Pesticide-free organic farming has thus emerged as a health imperative, and it contributes to nutrition, food, and health security. Over 30 years, Indian NGO Navdanya’s research has shown that we can produce more nutrition per acre through biodiversity, which in turn regenerates soil and promotes health.
Health Per Acre
Organic biodiversity-based mixed cropping is the foundation of , a system of farming that increases the nutrition produced per acre of farmland. The health-per-acre system promotes growing and consuming a wide variety of traditional local foods that inherently contain the entire profile of nutrients required by the human body. Organic mixed-cropping methods maximize the nutrition produced per acre and thus help
