Global Agricultural Land Use v. Agricultural Production [OC]Submitted by rosetechnology t3_xvgmuw in dataisbeautiful
Sininenn t1_ir17iwt wrote
Reply to comment by TaftIsUnderrated in Global Agricultural Land Use v. Agricultural Production [OC] by rosetechnology
It may be easy, but it is also misleading.
It does not take into account price changes in either direction, for example.
It also does not necessarily make it clear whether more food is actually produced, only that the profits from food production have been increasing.
TaftIsUnderrated t1_ir18go8 wrote
That's total amount being produced, not profits.
Also if we had to pick a metric to base our agricultural system on, I would rather have a system that tries to maximize production based on money, not one that tries to maximize production based on calories - because then we would only be eating bread and rice.
RedditSuggestion1234 t1_ir1cis7 wrote
>then we would only be eating bread and rice.
https://www.fao.org/3/t0207e/T0207E04.htm
Potatoes or sweet potatoes seem more likely in that case.
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