 We're told that modern intensive farming is essential to our food supply. That's not accurate. Research shows that a third of the world's food is grown on small plots using only a quarter of the farmland. In other words, small farmers are producing a third more food per unit of land than larger, more intensive farms. Research in England shows that urban allotments can easily match the productivity of large-scale intensive farming. In a follow-up to that, they found the biodiversity of urban allotments was much higher protecting local wildlife. Research in Australia shows that urban allotments are more productive than intensive farming. And local food projects in Spain have been shown to make large cuts in resource use and carbon emissions, which are essential to solving the ecological crisis. In which case, why isn't opening up more allotments to solve the food and ecological crises on the political agenda? To find out more about this, watch the full video, The Cost of Living Crisis and the Common Crash, on Rambo and Activist YouTube channel.