Local self-provisioning cannot feed the world, because most people do not live within reach of enough fertile land.

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• It is false that the world needs no more food and only better distribution of the food it has. MGMichael Grunwald13 Jul 2025
• A romantic, low-yield farming system would need far more land and would produce more hunger, not less. GMGeorge Monbiot28 May 2023
• Pasture-fed meat cannot be scaled up to feed the world, because there is not enough land on Earth for it. GMGeorge Monbiot28 May 2023
• A pre-modern countryside produces an enormous amount of food and almost no extractable surplus, which is the hard limit on everything the state above it can do. BDBret Devereaux24 Jul 2020
• The central problem of the food system is producing much more food on much less land. MGMichael Grunwald3 Jul 2023

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