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Because population rise, and no all farms are apt for produce. Plus even Bill gates owning a lot of farms, there are still more normal people owning farms. Normal farmers are also struggling with costs, and gmos help them. It also cuts costs in not requiring more people working on maintaining the crops. Like organic where one needs to keep spraying pesticides over and over since the pesticides are innediccient.
The costs can be cut by better automation, there's ways to farm without requiring pesticides, a lot of the farmland being bought is not to continue food production but to 'lower emissions'. Population rise can only be solved with more investment in space colonisation since that is the best source of future resources, habitation and technology but only one billionaire is actively investing in that.
We have plenty of land that can be farmed but gross mismanagement actually stopped that happening like the case with Zimbabwe
Unfortunately the no pesticides part you mention only works on small scale and doesn't work on larger scale. Automation helps but it is a higher cost alternative while gmos are low cost.
For instance you can't have a massive corn plantation on very hilly regions, tractors would struggle to harvest it. So no, not all land is optimal for farming.
Plenty of land is perfect for food production but mismanagement squandered it. Zimbabwe was a breadbasket until they either forced off or killed the white farmers. Lots of other land is perfect for cultivation but political issues stop financing so a lot of land is left barren.
Hell just look at the current state of California to see how you have land perfect for food production ruined by political policies
Tell me how a combine can harvest something here.
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