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World hunger for the first world maybe. 80% of global food is still produced in very small, un-industrial family farms.
by inamberclad 5y ago
World hunger for the first world maybe. 80% of global food is still produced in very small, un-industrial family farms.
- bryanlarsen 5y agoSource? I suspect the number is closer to 20% than 80.
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoFAO’s SOFA report (2014a) estimated, based on an analysis of just 30 countries using the 2000 round of agricultural census data, that there are approximately 500 million family farmers in the world who produce 80% of the world’s food From: https://pure.coventry.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/11930738/1_s2.0_S0305750X15001217_main.pdf https://pure.coventry.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/11930738/1...
- bryanlarsen 5y agoSo? My father in law runs a family farm that is over 4 square miles and his neighbor runs one that is over 40. The neighboring Hutterite colony is even bigger. All are very heavily industrialized.
- kspacewalk2 5y agoEqually wrong in both counts. Most of the food in the world is produced by industrial farming. And it is (obviously) the poor (people and countries) who will be disproportionately affected by this, as they are by any price shocks. Your food costs will go up, people in Somalia will starve to death.
- TheGigaChad 5y ago