Howdy Jed,
Few around Houston can imagine the area was once prime farm land first
cultivated by German immigrants with truck farms delivering fresh vegetables
daily. By 1900, rice farming was underway with Japanese immigrants. By the
end of WW2 Rice was a super crop exported across the world.
Regarding the "Environmental space" thread, I mentioned that this
book is chock full of stats about land and food:
Pimentel, D. and M. Pimentel (eds), Food, Energy, and Society,
Revised Edition. 1996: University Press of Colorado.
See chapter 12 especially, which the editors themselves wrote.
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