Isn't that Yosemite?

2 things are true: farmers can be "rich" (assets and resources > many others) AND they are in a volatile, $$$ intensive, low margin business subject that leaves them vulnerable to economic stress, much like their neighbors. Their interests are often more aligned than is recognized by either.

Who owns US farmland? Farmdoc has a new tool to visualize foreign interest in US farmland, created by my colleagues Bruce Sherrick and Juo-Han Tsay at the TIAA Center for Farmland Research. Doing this isn't easy, because the numbers are actually very small.

Hands of Poker demonstrate this - which one wins?

This is also consistent across hundreds of studies: when a mixture gives the best results, it's a non-legume+legume. Here, oilseed+legume gave best results.

If the problem is double clicking when you single click it, there is a software fix that works well, "double-click fix"

Like I said, there are several versions of agroecology.

"...than water."

Not sure where you are, but here in the US, government pressure now means people will go in the opposite direction.

I see a lot based on the "shift in diets" which is a low probability solution. What if diets don't change? Then my point is made.

Your right, it is more complicated than this, but this - the dominant effect of farming on nature - is often ignored while people get lost in the smaller details. And until our population peaks, loss of nature due to conversion to cropping will be the primary factor on nature.

It depends. I work in irrigated cropping systems in an arid environment. Our yield stability and % of yield potential is very high, but our soil health don't score very well on most tests. This tells me that soil health is much less a driver of yield than soil health.

And what is a measure of land use efficiency? Yield. High yield=high land use efficiency for cropping.

The worst thing about agriculture is its use of land. Whether conventional, no-till, organic, or agroecological-regenerative, the biodiversity lost from initially clearing land for crops far outweighs any differences in farming systems.

Recent paper: "There is now overwhelming evidence for the destructive effects of the industrial model of agriculture on Earth’s life-support systems." The fact is that ALL models of crop production that will actually feed us have these destructive effects - it's how crops are grown.