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> In truth, the planet produces enough food to feed its billions (...) Your statement is very general in nature. I assume you mean humans, and I assume by feed

> In truth, the planet produces enough food to feed its billions (...) Your statement is very general in nature. I assume you mean humans, and I assume by feeding you mean a sustainable process. Would you please quote your sources here? The modern industrial agriculture that keeps modern society alive is based on efficiency innovations such as the Haber Bosch process, soil management, antibiotics, automation, transportation etc that being huge scale effects. Personally, I have no idea of the human population ceiling if all were optimally distributed home farmers. It sure would come with inefficiencies. source: had some interesting conversions with individuals from the from BASF/Cargill/Tyson Foods. > To be perfectly honest I'm not an expert (...) It is a super complex topic - biology, farming, engineering, markets. Hard to be an expert here. Let us hope one shows up and writes a comment :^)

cheese_goddess 5y ago
What I mean is that the food we produce is already enough to feed everyone (yes, humans). The UN article I link starts with this: Enough food is produced today to feed everyone on the planet, but hunger is on the rise in some parts of the world, and some 821 million people are considered to be “chronically undernourished”. What steps are being taken to ensure that everyone, worldwide, receives sufficient food? The first sentence includes a link to the source of the claim. What do you mean by "inefficiecies" at the end of your second paragraph?
- wuschel 5y ago
  Hey, thanks for clarifying the source / scope of your statement. I admit that I did not read your link. > What do you mean by "inefficiecies" at the end of your second paragraph? I mostly mean the effects of scale that large food production centers can bring. These usually manifests in specialized workforce and efficient use of financial resources e.g. 2-3 shift slaughterhouses, use of large mashines for agriculture, soil management. In effect, this allows for a larger part of the populace to take another role in society than being a farmer e.g. ideally doctor, professor, teacher, construction worker, taxi driver, et cetera. PS (1) I am a fan of permaculture and eating from my own garden, and I see that there are many a defect in the way we are producing food these days. (2) The World Food Program has some great successes to show for, and I admire many of those systemic grass roots projects.

cheese_goddess 5y ago

What I mean is that the food we produce is already enough to feed everyone (yes, humans). The UN article I link starts with this: Enough food is produced today to feed everyone on the planet, but hunger is on the rise in some parts of the world, and some 821 million people are considered to be “chronically undernourished”. What steps are being taken to ensure that everyone, worldwide, receives sufficient food? The first sentence includes a link to the source of the claim. What do you mean by "inefficiecies" at the end of your second paragraph?

wuschel 5y ago
Hey, thanks for clarifying the source / scope of your statement. I admit that I did not read your link. > What do you mean by "inefficiecies" at the end of your second paragraph? I mostly mean the effects of scale that large food production centers can bring. These usually manifests in specialized workforce and efficient use of financial resources e.g. 2-3 shift slaughterhouses, use of large mashines for agriculture, soil management. In effect, this allows for a larger part of the populace to take another role in society than being a farmer e.g. ideally doctor, professor, teacher, construction worker, taxi driver, et cetera. PS (1) I am a fan of permaculture and eating from my own garden, and I see that there are many a defect in the way we are producing food these days. (2) The World Food Program has some great successes to show for, and I admire many of those systemic grass roots projects.