A romantic, low-yield farming system would need far more land and would produce more hunger, not less.

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• The central problem of the food system is producing much more food on much less land. MGMichael Grunwald3 Jul 2023
• It is false that the world needs no more food and only better distribution of the food it has. MGMichael Grunwald13 Jul 2025
• Local self-provisioning cannot feed the world, because most people do not live within reach of enough fertile land. GMGeorge Monbiot4 Oct 2023
• The claim that higher yields backfire and end up increasing farmland is much weaker than the literature assumes. LBLinus Blomqvist13 Mar 2024
• Vertical farming swaps a land problem for an energy problem, and the energy cost is what stops it feeding the world. MGMichael Grunwald3 Jul 2023

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