Organic farming just as productive as conventional, and better at building soil, Rodale finds

This article from Grist reports on long-term testing results seeking to evaluate the most productive farming systems and explicitly comparing organic and conventional (GMO/pesticide-iintensive) crops. The results are dramatic and confirm that organic is just as productive and much less environmentally destructive than conventional methods, but our politicians and regulators have yet to embrace such data.
http://www.grist.org/article/2011-03-25-rodale-data-show-organic-just-as-productive-better-at-building

From Food & Water Watch: No Quick Subsidies Fix for Food System
http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/blogs/no-quick-subsidies-fix-for-food-system/