Just a tiny input: The contribution of industrial agriculture to feed the world is, at least on the global scale, frequently overestimated.
Statistics usually take only markets into account. Howevers, since subsistence and smallholder farmers are supplying a large proportion of the rural (and peri-urban) populations, we should not forget them.
The pictures of the harvester-threshers are also used as propaganda. In reality, the relation mouths fed by smallholders vs agroindustry is around 50:50.
(Note that in 'developed' countries, there are indeed not many farmers left. However, grandpa's vegetable garden and granny's backyard chicken coop don't appear in the eitherstatistics )
Think agroecology.
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