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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.





Yasuko Kitajima
Thu Jun 19 16:20:56 PDT 1997