After millennia of expansion, the world has passed ‘peak agricultural land’

Re:After millennia of expansion, the world has passed ‘peak ... by 8bitsrule on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @04:30PM (#31574540)

Lots of ways. We can live with much less sugar in our food. One example: sugarcane. According to the (UN) FAO,

"The present area of sugarcane (Saccarum officinarum) is about 13 million ha with a total commercial world production of about 1254.8 million ton/year cane or 55 million ton/year sucrose. (FAOSTAT, 2001)." [https://www.fao.org/land-water/databases-and-software/crop-i...]

That climbed to 1.9B tons by 2020. [WP ... 40% in Brazil] And 13Mha = 130,000 km^2 > 50,000 sq.mi. About the size of Iowa. And then, there's almonds.

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Re:After millennia of expansion, the world has passed ‘peak ... by bombcar on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @07:42PM (#31576283)

6% of corn is used for sweeteners. That could be removed entirely and probably do the USA a world of good.

https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/coexisten...

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