This question must definitely be rephrased. It is not a matter of whether or not sustainable farms can feed the world, it is rather more of a question of how soon and how can we implement this goal. The notion of choice is a long gone experiment.
Arguments against this issue point to a list of factors that indicates industrial farming as the only way the world can be fed with a substantial growing population – including the listing of massive-scale farming methods as key elements in curbing climate change.
I am very much a proponent of biodiversity and any idea that undermines the Earth’s variation of life forms under a given regional ecosystem is to me unequivocally irrational and just plain uttermost self detrimental. Massive-scale farming as it is done today has proven time and time again to be of dire consequences for the surrounding wild life in any locale.
Thousands of reports and experiments can attest to one how crucial the biodiversity of our planet is to us and to everyone of it’s inhabitants. Today, how industrial farming treats the planet must undergone a complete repair as it is very much so broken. The 2008 World Bank and UN International Assessment on Knowledge, Science and Technology concluded that a fundamental overhaul of the current food and farming system is needed to get us out of both the food and fuel crises. Findings of the report acknowledges that ecological methods should be the aptly choice for the future.
Let us take an anecdotal evidence of industry scale transformation: Mosanto, the leading producer of genetically modified seeds, which sells 90% of the world’s GE seeds, recorded a loss of $ 213 million last quarter. Foreseen results like these in essence has led Mosanto to years ago strategically posed itself desperately as the key to hinder starvation in developing nations with its claim of godlike high yield seeds.
I think we’re cathing on.
Illustration: Chaval Brasil