Mass Protest in the Netherlands by Farmers.

Danzy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119345340#Comment_119345340

Europe could still produce a large food surplus by Organic Farming, because it has the quality soil and suitable climate.

Most of Africa and Asia are all out to do that even with flogging their largely poor soil hard with chemicals.

It is as they imagine that productive soil like we have in Europe is the norm.

Furze99

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119354137#Comment_119354137

This book published back in 1992: https://www.lilliputpress.ie/product/the-growth-illusion-how-economic-growth-has-enriched-the-few-impoverished-the-many-and-endangered-the-planet

was written by a Green when Greens were really Greens and not industrialists wedded to some new Green Technological pact.

What you wrote in your last paragraph/ sentence, this books covers again & again with numerous examples.

charlie14

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119361125#Comment_119361125

I would very much doubt there would be a large food surplus by Organic Farming, or even if there would be any food surplus in Europe.

Sri Lanka`s Agricultural Research Center over 22 seasons found that crop yields were lower by 21.5% to 33%. Practically the identical statistics that Agroscope and the University of Zurich reported from a 12 year study on Organic Farming where their study showed crop yields of between 22% and 34% lower.

From that it would appears that the soil quality in Sri Lanka is no different from European soils, but there are areas of the world where soil quality is much lower, so attempting to grow crops organically in those areas will give even lower yields, so if all the world was farming organically, even with the present world population, you would be looking at famine in large areas of the world.

Worldwide organic farming would be a global disaster. It`s a green/environmentalist ideological wet dream, and one that is extremely dangerous and disingenuous of them to be even advocating let alone be attempting to impose.

Danzy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119361635#Comment_119361635

Somewhere between 3 and 4 billion depend on artificial fertilizer for food.

There are vast stretches of France not being worked, they alone can vastly increase output.

Such a change is only theoretical.

charlie14

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119361668#Comment_119361668

I have been in France and I do not recall large areas not being productive and it would not be just France that would have to increase it`s acreage under tillage by between 22% and 34%. All of Europe would have to increase by that level just to produce the present yields farming organically. For the rest of those countries with poorer soils that percentage would be even higher with the production costs rising even proportionally higher. It`s a green wet dream that has no basis in reality.

Such a change is not just theoretical. It is already happening thanks to green ideology. We have already seen what it has caused just from the 2019 EU ban on a few pesticides with no alternatives being allowed with a drop in certain crops being sown in Europe because of farmers identifying the lack of financial return due to lower yields.