Which should be prioritized?

Question

Given a piece of land, will it be more important to plant food, or to plant plants that can be turned into biofuel? Then what if it was in a larger scale, such as a country, will your answer still be the same? What are the pros and cons?

Answer 1

First thing first

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Protect the home land and the homes

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Number two is food you got to feed the people who are now able to have a home

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Lastly get the place cleaned up so they all can live in the place that they eat and sleep alternative fuels to use is a last on on this question.

Answer 2

This sounds like a homework question, but I'm going to answer anyway.

I'm a small farmer, on a permaculture farm.  THE most important thing to protect is FARMLAND.  NOT land that houses sit on (especially suburbs).  Farmland is COMPLETELY IRREPLACEABLE.  Humans are perfectly capable of living in high density cities, in apartments.  

The most important thing to plant is food, hands down, no question about it.  If fuel is limited, fuel can be prioritized to take food from farms, to the cities, to feed the masses of people.  

Fuel is of zero use, if there is no food to feed the masses of people in cities.

The great thing is that farms CAN HAVE THE BEST OF BOTH!  We can grow rapeseed on our farm.  The rapeseed can be squeezed for the oils, and produce bio-diesel, to run our trucks and tractors.  The squeezings from the rapeseed can be fed to livestock (it's very healthy for them) to help them grow, to produce meat for humans to eat.  The livestock in turn produces manure, which is used to fertilize the fields, crops, and pastures.

A farm CAN have a complete circle, and produce grains, hay, fruits, nuts, vegtables, meat, dairy, eggs, AND fuel.  However the amount of fuel a permaculture farm produces is limited, and would be of little use to masses of drivers.  However a permaculture farm could produce enough fuel to be able to run trucks, to deliver food, weekly, to one spot in the city (I'm talking about a semi truck).

Serrious revamping of laws needs to happen, however, to make such a thing a reality.

Right now, it is illegal, without paying HUGE fees/bonds for us to drive our vehicles filled with fuel we make ourselves on the public roads.  So we do not.  We drive them only on-farm.

There needs to be a complete revamping of the agriculture system in the U.S.A.  Major agra businesses are far too much in control.  They have a stranglehold on the American buying public, and on the U.S. Government.  

Food has always been a priority for humans.  If you don't have enough food to feed your family, and children, you WILL seek a way to feed yourself, and your family.  If that means robbing, killing, rioting, overthrowing the Government....all of those things happen when their is not enough food.

Not enough fuel, or too expensive, people grumble, get cranky, and then they adapt.  They tellacomute, bike, carpool, work shorter work weeks but longer hours per day, ride the bus or train, walk, move closer to work or find a job closer to home....something.  They find a way to have a life around fuel that is too expensive, or rationed.  

Humans do not find a way around famine, that does not involve some sort of death.

~Garnet

Permaculture homesteading/farming over 20 years

Answer 3

That depends more on the land than on the needs of the people. Not every piece of land is equal in value for every use.