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What is the yield from your agriforest? Will your forests feed 7 billion people?

Of course not. It's perfectly fine to desire luxury goods like local or heirloom varieties when you buy your food. But you are trying to propose a model for feeding the world, and using this approach the world would starve.

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I'm just a beginner here, my agroforest yields nothing, I started just a few months ago. Anyway, from what I hear from people more experienced than me is quite the opposite, it yields much more, sure you would get less tomatos per hectare but you would get a lot of other products too. I'm very curious where can I find evidences agroforests couldn't feed the world? Or evidences it yields less then current farming methods?

Edit: a good view on the agroforests they're doing here https://vimeo.com/136423275 it is subtitled, this one is a good example of how a agroforest can recover destructed lands.

The point of food forests is to create solid reserves of food at local level, not to replace industrial agriculture - it's a buffer to have food growing near you, and it makes everyone safer.

The point of local food production is it is resilient. If you add local composting, greenhouses, local gardens, community gardens, local farms etc, to sustainable practice in industrial ag, then you have a model that can feed everyone with launching us off a cliff when for example the cost of oil begins to rise as supply falls or war hits in some region or other.

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