Global crop planning?

[Young Master Smeet]

This might be a good example of just what world socialism could be like, and the use of optimisation algorithms to allocate resources effectively:
Forests v farmland: what the world would look like if we allocated all our land in the optimal way

“A team of researchers in Germany have calculated optimal land use configurations that could work under future climate conditions. Their study in the journal PNAS, suggests that rejigging where we grow food could almost triple crop production, while maintaining supplies of freshwater and stores of carbon.”

but

“It’s also tough to see the suggested land use as feasible or pragmatic when geopolitical and socioeconomic factors tend to drive decisions on what to do with land. For example, the optimisation suggests more cropland in most of Great Britain, with parts of Scotland and southern and eastern England left to nature. But this would require significant policy and socio-culture change in a country where 52% of land is already enclosed farmland and only 11% is woodland.”

But *we* could imagine where such a study might for part of a worldwide debate, be voted for after a series of conferences, and become part of regional and local organisations development plans over a series of years.

This is the kind of radical thinking we need to be supporting, and for which socialism is the complement.

[ALB]

Yes but socialism is the only framework within which this could be done as the division of the world into competing capitalist states vying for economic and political dominance make it impossible under capitalism.

The same goes for other global problems such as global over-warming, world poverty, etc. they can only be dealt with rationally and properly within the framework of the common ownership and democratic control of the world’s natural and industrial resources.

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