[paganel]

Don't think precision agriculture would scale. And even if it would scale, meaning we would theoretically be able to grow a lot more food on a lot less land, it would only mean that we'd grow more food and especially that we'd have even cheaper food. The Jevons paradox is real.

[jvanderbot]

Sure, maybe PA will not scale. But re: over-production and runoff of nutrients, tech can help, as evidenced by small-scale experiments in PA.

There's nothing about PA that guarantees more food from less land. It may. The goal I've seen is same food with less waste.

Like insulating your coffee machine. it doesn't produce more coffee, but it uses less electricity.