Same thing goes for agriculture. You might be on the same train of thought as me, but I'm worried you throw around the phrase "modern agricultural techniques" and "fertilizer" and "tractors" a bit too loosely. Modern agricultural techniques are exactly what destroyed Western farming communities, increased unemployment, ravaged the land, reduced efficiency by acre, and have resulted in foods far less nutritional than what used to be produced.
Improvements need to be made, but if we do it via GM crops and fertilizer and pesticides and tractors, will just get higher short-term yields while ruining the long-term productivity of the land and the quality of the food. Instead, we need to focus on putting land in control of small scale farmers' hands, improving long-term soil health, the promotion of local crops meant to thrive in local conditions, a strong balance of animal and plant production together on the same farms, and fighting against large interests to get sustainable irrigation in the hands of the communities that need it. We need to take measures that put short-term and long-term food security in the lands of the communities themselves, which means labor-intensive agriculture that maximizes local employment, acre-by-acre efficiency, soil health, and food quality while minimizing pollution and the reliance on outside products for support.
