Dear Florence,
I am responding to your request for inputs on nutrition.
Shanthu Shantaram’s article at: http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/LeNI9i16mbNcd5L8J8sU1L/Is-the-organic-mantra-for-real.html?utm_source=copy
and the scientist community (almost all specialists) have got away with their push for high cost high risk laboratory developments of conventional mono crop agriculture systems during the last around 100 years. In the long term, this has for many decades and continues to be the cause of the agrarian crisis, hunger, malnutrition, poverty and effects of climate change worldwide, especially among the rural poor smallholder producer communities (about 60% of the world's population) have lost the knowledge and know how to produce nutritious food through agriculture.
In contrast, those following the low cost low risk climate friendly Agro ecological organic systems of their area, setting up producer org/ company (PC) but managed by professionals, to take over all risks and responsibilities, other than on farm activities, now have have access to own requirements of nutritious food and cash with increased net income/ purchasing power improved livelihoods, mitigation of climate change and reversing migration back from urban areas, contributing to economic development and growth, case study at www.navajyoti.org, alsoattached is a 20 March, 2015, Food Systems Report from Africa.
M. Subhash Mehta