What agricultural regions have relatively limited capacities to support intensive food production and at the s

Question

What agricultural regions have relatively limited capacities to support intensive food production and at the same time face rapid population growth?

Answer 1

WOW, the short answer is almost all of the third world.

In the developed world population growth is declining. It is still there, just not at the same rate of increase. In many of the third world countries population growth is both high and accelerating. They only have the same land though and have been exploiting it almost to the limit for ages.

If the oil economy fails though, the west and the third world countries all face major starvations.

Answer 2

This is a problem that is occurring almost everywhere, especially where the ability to transport harvests is an issue. If the infrastructure (trucking and roadways, rail lines and trains) is compromised or cost, especially in fuel, increases then local production is relied upon more and more to keep food cost down. Most areas of the world have populations that are increasing at a fairly high rate and population centers get more crowded and expand into what has been areas of farms and food production.

Tax increases frequently go to upgrade roads and rail. Companies are encouraged to come in to countries or areas and invest in the system, which will drive up cost of food. And with that more land that was relied upon for so long is lost to urban sprawl. New lands, like jungle in S. America, is acquired by slash and burn and put to use for a short time. But that land is poor and misused so it becomes nonproductive in just a few harvests and is abandoned for more reclaimed burn land. So goes the old growth we need on a planet wide scale. Gratefully some countries are working to stop this kind of misuse but a whole lot more energy needs to be put into saving the land and educating the farmers. Only then can we get on track, keep farms sustainable, intensive, and productive and feed the population with available resources.