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It makes it easier for and given locality to grow more food, so it makes it easier to distribute that food. It means that you can tolerate greater levels of wa
by afarrell 10y ago
It makes it easier for and given locality to grow more food, so it makes it easier to distribute that food.
It means that you can tolerate greater levels of waste. In a world where logistics are imperfect, there will always be some waste.
Also, if you have greater yield for a given input of labor, more people can go work in a factory make latex gloves or some huge number of life-saving products.
- DasIch 10y agoHas there been any practical success in that area or is this still mostly theoretical?
- moptar 10y agoIf you can grow food in more hostile environments, won't that mean people move to those more hostile environments and again end up dependent on unreliable food supplies, but now slightly further into the desert/salt flats/etc than before?
- ctack 10y agoThis would be it, you'd deal with the inefficiencies of distribution by having more a robust ability to grow food where you need it.
- therestisgone 10y agoHow is that supposed to help subsistence farmers who can't afford the seeds and heribicides?