Questions tagged [agriculture]
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Is there a proven, quantitative link between food wastage and food prices?
Reducing food wastage should in theory reduce demand for food, thereby driving food prices down. However, there are a lot more factors involved here (for example, the reduction in price of a product x due to lesser wastage in region A may not…
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Why are there so many small farm operations in the US?
Due to the economies of scale that I would expect a large farm operation could provide, I would think the US would be dominated by only a few farming companies. But in reality it's populated by a crazy huge number of small "family" farms, and after…
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