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According to Our World in Data [0]: > Smallholder farms (farms with less then 2ha) use 24% of agricultural land, produce 29% of crops, providing 32% of the wor
by ciconia 5y ago
According to Our World in Data [0]:
> Smallholder farms (farms with less then 2ha) use 24% of agricultural land, produce 29% of crops, providing 32% of the world's food.
That means that the larger ones use 76% of land to provide 68% of the world's food. Looks to me like small farms are indeed more efficient...
[0] https://ourworldindata.org/smallholder-food-production https://ourworldindata.org/smallholder-food-production