permaculture

[Toby Hemenway <toby@patternliteracy.com>]

On Apr 26, 2012, at 4:47 PM, Dieter Brand wrote:

>  That would mean that there would have to be nearly 300 millions hectares 
> of farmland in the US.  That seems a lot.

From http://www.ers.usda.gov/statefacts/US.HTM

Total US cropland 406,424,909 acres in 2007
Total US pasture 408,832,116 acres

Assuming we should count all the pasture, and since it's land that is being 
ruined by agriculture, I think so, that's 815 million acres of land for food 
production, or 
    
330 million hectares. One per US person. The Egyptians did much better.

Thanks for the exercise, Dieter.


Toby
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