[Sca-cooks] How much land to feed a person

[Johnna Holloway]

At least in England there's a rather famous study--
The Agrarian History of England and Wales, edited at least in part
by Joan Thirsk. It is several volumes in length. I am sure that
aspects of what you want are covered in there.
Individual estates have been studied for PhD's of course.
You might see what the local academic library offers in terms
of agrarian history and access to dissertations.
I rather suspect that it will vary over time due to place and climate
change. Certainly one reason for the adoption of the new world
potato had to do with substantial yield of foodstuffs in a small acreage.

Johnnae

Sharon Gordon wrote:

>Has anyone come across any information that would indicate how much land it
>took to feed one person in a particular location, or some indirect
>information I could use to figure it out?  The sort of thing I could use
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