Stop Saying Farms Must Feed the World

How to think about feeding the world, productively.

Sarah Mock

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I was in 9th grade the first time I heard that, in 2050, there are going to be 9 billion people in the world. At the time, 2050 was about a million years in the future, as unfathomable as the amount of food it would take to feed 9 billion humans.

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Sarah Mock

Author of Farm (and Other F Words), buy now: https://tinyurl.com/4sp2a5tb. Rural issues and agriculture writer/researcher. Not a cheerleader, not the enemy.