How has the world managed to feed a rapidly growing population with ever-shrinking land resources?

A big part has been increasing crop yields — e.g., we can now produce more than three times as much cereal from a given area of land as we could in 1961.https://t.co/6yo28kkHcw pic.twitter.com/QZXbdN6bZi

— Our World in Data (@OurWorldInData) June 7, 2023