The Missing Metric: Why “Calories Per Acre” Is the Wrong Way to Measure Food
Everyone wants to talk about yield. Bushels per acre. Calories per acre. How much food we can squeeze out of a piece of land. That’s the metric driving modern agriculture—and it’s the backbone of arguments like the ones in We Are Eating the Earth. But there’s a problem: not all calories are equal. And land doesn’t just produce calories. If...Read More