Can Smarter Farming Spare Land by Getting More Food from Each Plot?

    

After learning that the global physical limits on farming are high and still remembering that the goal is sparing land for Nature, I must inquire whether smart farming with real crops in real places can grow the needed food for ten billion by raising yields per plot rather than by plowing more.

 
• Farmers do progress
• Smart farmers raise yields per plot
• A ceiling on what smart farmers can raise on a plot
• Smart farmers get more milk and meat from fee
• Changing species