I have read that the yields of organic farming can be at or close to the level of industrial farming minus the latters' losses, but would have to dig up a reference. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
(Wild dream time...lose the air pollution and plant food in gardens, beside paths, plant vegetables..all different kinds, using permaculture principles...fill towns with apple trees, walnut trees...following permaculture principles...there would be no division between us and nature...we would live "in" nature again, with our food available...if we stretch out an arm. The only imports would be food that couldn't wouldn't grow under local climactic conditions...but then you could pick...say...pine nuts...pack 'em up (small scale!), ship them--via wind-powered rail networks!--to those who need pine nuts...(pinoli)...and get fresh basil in return...</wild dream>) Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
..Oh no! We don't have any tides. Dammit.
OK I'll find a Nordic student coming to so-called Language School in an area near you. As I understand from my daughters, there is a Department of Advanced Psychosexual Hydraulics at a College somewhere in your neck of the woods? You can't be me, I'm taken
