So the thing is while organic farming does produce lower yields our current agricultural system is...horribly inefficient. There's huge amounts of food being dumped because it can't go to first world markets because its cosmetically wrong - it doesn't get distributed, unfortunately, because that would drive prices down, so a lot of these dumped crops go to animals or just get used as compost, when there's actually scope for distribution on local markets.
So ideally there also needs to be a restructuring of the agricultural market as is along with taking a long, hard look at distribution and supply chains. I know that over here, at least, some nearly 40% of our produce goes waste because we lack good storage and transport systems - a lot of grain is bought by the govt and goes into storage to keep prices from plummeting wildly, but unfortunately this grain isn't stored that great.
If we could defragment and re-shape a lot of the agricultural supply/delivery systems we might find that we're actually producing enough food - without say, looking at alternate production systems like urban farms, vertical farms or aeroponic/hydroponic farm systems.
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Date: 2019-03-20 05:48 am (UTC)So ideally there also needs to be a restructuring of the agricultural market as is along with taking a long, hard look at distribution and supply chains. I know that over here, at least, some nearly 40% of our produce goes waste because we lack good storage and transport systems - a lot of grain is bought by the govt and goes into storage to keep prices from plummeting wildly, but unfortunately this grain isn't stored that great.
If we could defragment and re-shape a lot of the agricultural supply/delivery systems we might find that we're actually producing enough food - without say, looking at alternate production systems like urban farms, vertical farms or aeroponic/hydroponic farm systems.