Stability of the food supply is broadly related to the environmental conditions that allow for sustainable food production and encourage productivity as well as to the economic conditions that allow for sustainable supplies at reasonable prices. This paper focuses on the interactions and interdependencies between farming practices and environmental conditions. By producing food, farmers can improve or degrade the environment they depend on. Both favorable and stable environmental conditions and agricultural systems resistant or resilient to environmental changes are crucial for the stability of food production.

Stability of food supply is also associated with other dimensions of food security, such as access to food and food utilization, as well as economic conditions of food stability. This paper reviews the literature on food stability and the environmental factors that contribute to it with respect to organic agriculture. Organic agriculture here includes both those production systems organized around distinct organic and biodynamic certification schemes that are “certified organic agriculture” and those that, by virtue of their production systems, follow organic principles but are “non-certified organic”.