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Local agriculture won't feed 7 billion people and even worst went the method you are proposing is GMO, fertilizer and pesticide free.

• lhl 7y ago
  The point is that conventional agriculture (eg, with industrial inputs) is literally unsustainable - there is a 56% food gap in the coming decades. [1] Also, there's plenty of evidence that small, sustainable farms are both more efficient (in inputs, and land) and more productive in total caloric terms that mono-cropped industrial farming. In the Pretty review I referenced, Table 3 shows the "adoption of agricultural sustainability technologies and practices on 286 projects in 47 countries" increased average % increase in crop yields from 22% to 146%. [2] Per the FAO [3], globally, small farms continue to dominate in food production and their food production (and economic sustainability) would be improved via an "ecological intensification" approach. [4] [1] https://www.wri.org/blog/2018/12/how-sustainably-feed-10-billion-people-2050-21-charts https://www.wri.org/blog/2018/12/how-sustainably-feed-10-bil... [2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2610163/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2610163/ [3] https://www.globalagriculture.org/report-topics/industrial-agriculture-and-small-scale-farming.html https://www.globalagriculture.org/report-topics/industrial-a... [4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5478712/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5478712/