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I know that right now we have a worldwide food surplus and that hunger is a matter of distribution rather than production.
But modern farming methods are hideously unsustainable.
Anyone worked up the numbers on whether we can feed eight billion people with #Permaculture?
@wraidd here's some good looking info! (I haven't listened to the podcast yet) https://www.thepermaculturepodcast.com/2012/can-permaculture-feed-the-world/
@wraidd Just as @Ranunculus I have no numbers at hand, but for me it is just logical that if we treat our organic waste as a resource to improve our soil, there is no reason we can not feed 8 billion people.
The Boston Consulting Group published something that may have some pointers for you:
https://www.bcg.com/publications/2018/time-plant-seeds-sustainable-growth-agriculture.aspx
@wraidd I just read 'Restoration Agriculture' by Mark Shepard, who was a standard farmer and is now an agroforestry/permaculture farmer. He pretty much says yes, we could probably feed even more, but - like other people on this thread have said - it would be more labour intensive. (Which wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing, tbh. Call it 'job creation' and it can be a bonus :) )
@wraidd I've seen some figures that yes, we can. Of course it's more labor intense.
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