“This isn’t about “organic” versus “modern.” It’s about supporting the system in which small producers make decisions based on their knowledge and experience of their farms in the landscape, as opposed to buying standardized technological fixes in a bag. Some people call this knowledge-based rather than energy-based agriculture, but obviously it takes plenty of energy; as it happens, much of that energy is human, which can be a good thing.”

– http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/15/opinion/how-to-feed-the-world.html?pagewanted=3&ref=todayspaper