From the article, it sounds like less-intensive farming techniques are needed to help carbon storage, of which organic farming can help.
It follows that the other step needed to shore this up is to have less food waste, more local food, and most likely eat less meat per-capita.
I'm not sure why the end interpretation of the study was "this is entirely useless" instead of "this is one step". It's a little like saying Kubernetes is useless, total overkill to make my blog.
Farming methods and use of chemical used should be evaluated individually. Organic is always better is not good strategy.
Some organic products taste better, but most of them don't. Some organic products are better for the environment but many are not. Most staple foods should not be organically farmed. For everyday foods it's important to to maintain good quality, avoid wastage and reduce the use of farmland if you want to be ecological.
Reducing the use of pesticides with better farming methods, breeding and genetic engineering should be part of ecological farming.
Sorry, this article is propaganda for BigAg and BigChem.
They looked at one meta study and one study that was ESTIMATING the effectiveness of organic based on land usage.
Organic farming is needed to increase top soil depth which results in increased carbon sequestration and water absorption.
Organic farming isn't specific enough. It's permanent agriculture which is needed, usually in the form of organic agriculture.
I don't support organic because of climate change. Organic is hopefully better than the normal farming practices that dump chemicals on nature just to get better yield. Regular farming practices(using pesticides and herbicides) has been linked to declines in wildlife populations. It's my hope that organic is less harmful to wildlife and human life.
This article isn't that helpful in my view. It calls for the status quo because current practices produce more on less. But the status quo is bad as well. So the take away is both things are bad.
Well great, let's stay on this path while all our insects and birds die, but at least global warming is still on the rise.../s