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That might sound appealing, but economics isn't with you here.

In addition, the farmland in eg the US isn't going away, just because you drop subsidies and tariffs from corn. People will just grow something else there, when corn isn't as profitable anymore.

(Or the land might drop in value.)



Farmland in the US has been going away for years, and getting turned into developments and urban sprawl.


For context, about 5% of the US is developed, and about 45% is used as farmland. Sprawl can be pretty bad and still not have much of an effect.


Do you have numbers on how much of an issues that is?


3-ish percent between 1992 and 2012: https://www.ngfa.org/newsletter/report-outlines-dramatic-los... (and it's disproportionally the good land)




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