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"The Organic Factor -- Tilting the Odds Toward Healthy Development"
This cover story in the May-June 2009 issue of "Organic Processing Magazine" covers six ways that organic food can help prevent disease throughout life, with special focus on obesity, diabetes, and birth defects.

 

"Promoting Sustainable Food Systems through Organic Agriculture: Past, Present and Future"
Overview of the benefits of organic food and farming published by the Hunger and Environmental Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group of the American Dietetic Assocaition.

 

Shades of Green: Quantifying the Benefits of Organic Dairy Production
The Center has developed a calculator to estimate certain pesticide, nitrogen fertilizer, and animal drug related "avoided impacts" associated with organic dairy farming.