One of the big problems over that is that the people getting the less money from the food sales are often the farmers. I know that due to small salaries and bad work condition and bank pressure, in France one farmer commit suicide each 2 days.
There are a lot of things to do to make agriculture a better universe and most of that will be through social changes. Technology could really a big thing into that but one need would be to have more farmers and less technology.
For a long time I thought that would mean a more expensive food, because if the farmers need to pay 15 salaries per months instead of 4 and work slower they are loosing a lot of money. And that sounds totally normal, but nowadays the farmers are repaying enormous loans they used to pay their machines, drones, self driving tractors (that's a real thing). Things they pais often several millions with only the loans' interests bigger than their own salary.
Having the food on the speculative market is also making it really hard because the farmers don't really know how much they will earn at the end of the month, everything can change everyday. The industrialization making them need to buy more pesticides and fertilizers each year doesn't help.
In fact a lot of farmers who tried to work that way, with more people and less machines and a better respect for the environment with a natural culture are the ones who are making the more money for themself and who have the best results.
The problem is that making this would totally destroy a huge market of agriculture machines and AI research and not every farmer can choose to stop using some of their machines because they still need to repay the loan
!PIZZA
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