• Money savings: Regenerative organic farming practices reduce external input costs both locally and globally (i.e., insecticides, herbicides, GMOseed, fungicides, fertilizers), while providing price premiums in the developed world. (Hanson et al. 1997)
• Energy savings: Organic agriculture reduces the energy required to produce a crop by 20 to 50 percent. (Azeez 2008; Pimentel et al. 2005). Reduction or elimination of fossil fuel use in agricultural production will soon be crucial in the fight against hunger in a world where fossil fuels are in short supply