APPENDIX 2
The Efficacy of the GROW BIOINTENSIVE
Method in Increasing Sustainable Yields
and Building Soils
As the charts below show, at some point during the years
2014 to 2021, there probably will not be enough land to
produce all the nutrition needed for most of the world’s
population using current standard agricultural practices.
These practices currently require about 7,000 to 63,000
square feet of farmable land per person, and most
people will have access to only 9,000 square feet of
arable soil as early as 2014. Further, most of the current
practices are growing only food in the areas indicated,
yielding insigni5cant net amounts of organic matter to
produce the soil-nurturing humus needed to ensure the
development of healthy soil. With many of these
practices, an additional equal area will be needed to