Michelle McKeown: Can we feed the world and save it too?
Should we make all farming organic or focus on intensifying production in specific areas and rewild the rest? It’s a trade-off that pits land sparing against land sharing
Imagine a future where every field is organic. No synthetic fertilisers, no pesticides, and only nature-based methods guiding how we grow our food. The air is cleaner. Pollinators are thriving. Soil is healthy.
Now imagine a very different scene. Industrial-scale farms using precision technology to push yields to their limits, automated, efficient, and engineered to feed billions from tightly managed plots.
