Lower Food Production

Bad news, Optimists. Latest data from USDA Agricultural Research Service shows a steep drop in agricultural output growth in 2011–2021. That despite an increase in land converted to agriculture.

Graph of global agricultural output growth for six past decades. The immediate past decade growth is below 2 per cent per annum for the first time in the series.

Hard times are coming, we just can’t be sure about when.

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