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Originally Posted by accord1999
A lot of that will come from increased yields, especially in Africa as it develops and can afford modern cultivars, fertilizers and machinery.
Even Canada has seen continued yield improvements, seeded area for crops only gone up about 10% over the last 20 years but harvested production has gone from 54 million tonnes in 2001 to 98 million tonnes in 2020. This year is considered a poor harvest due to drought in the Prairies but it still will exceed 70 million tonnes of production, and would have been a great harvest in the 2000s. |
That doesn’t help you with meat production though where increased pastureland would be required.