Are the numbers in the article assumptions?
Even if that was valid, a second-order effect is to increase carrying capacity and increase the rate of population growth.
Even now there are people who can't afford food, the more efficiently farming is done, the cheaper food will be for them.
Oh and of course the tiny little detail that applying the efficiency optimizer that is capitalism results in atrocious treatment of sentient beings (pardon the pathos, feel free to substitute with emotionless words if you can think of any).