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Also, how much arable land goes unused? How much of it gets developed for other uses (housing, etc.)?

• alltakendamned 7y ago
  And how much forested land is turned into mediocre arable land and gets depleted in record time ?
• Sharlin 7y ago
  In developed countries, and increasingly in developing countries, vast tracts of farmland are wasted on an extremely inefficient form of food production: passing the energy through an extra trophic level. Furthermore, in developing countries, a large fraction of arable land is used to grow exportable luxury products like tobacco, chocolate, and coffee. But hunger, globally, is not caused by insufficient production. It is almost entirely a problem with distribution.