From the article: In his treatise, Malthus couldn’t envisage any innovations for increasing yield beyond “dressing” the soil with cattle manure. In the decades

From the article: In his treatise, Malthus couldn’t envisage any innovations for increasing yield beyond “dressing” the soil with cattle manure. In the decades after he wrote, farmers in England took advantage of new machinery, powerful fertilizers, and higher-yield seeds, and supply rose faster than demand. I believe that due to mechanised food production and distribution, it takes 10 calories of oil to put one calorie on your plate. If oil becomes more expensive then food becomes more expensive. In a global market, the poorest lose. Governments have ringfenced rice for domestic consumption and supply and demand has cause huge rises in export prices. There's no safeguard to prevent this happening next to potatoes or wheat.