A brief discussion on energy use and greenhouse gas emmision in organic farming

Organic farming has become increasingly popular in the world. This is mostly attributed toescalating consumer concerns over the impacts of pesticides and chemical fertilizers on humanhealth as well as growing concerns over environmental pollution derived from modernagricultural practices, such as rising greenhouse gas emissions and water contaminations. Butdoes organic farming actually displace the environmental impacts commonly associated withconventional agriculture In this article, we analysed the recent results of environmental impactsfrom organic farming. The aim was to fill the gap in assessing organic farming’s relationship toclimate change and evaluating sustainability of this system with a minimal energy andenvironmental damage over time. Despite the efforts of recent years, there is still considerableroom for the environmental optimisation of organic farming systems. The lower, similar orhigher impacts of organic farming, depended on crop types, site effects and differences inmanagement intensity. The conclusions here are exploratory and act as a call to action to naturalscientists to further explore how organic farming functions. Feeding the growing worldpopulation under conditions of restricted land for agricultural cultivation, restricted naturalresources and changing climate demands new and innovative solutions. These solutions requirethe agricultural community, to address agricultural systems from a perspective of increasing theproductivity per area with lower external inputs and enhancing resource use efficiency withoutnegative effects on crop yield and system sustainability.

Keywords:

Eco-efficiency , Low inputs systems , Renewable resources , Global Warming