Can't taxes from those gains just be used to buy water from elsewhere though? If water from elsewhere is cheap why not use local water to make money instead?
Better in what sense? India might be poor (not a bad thing for attracting investment) but it's stable compared to Africa. South Africa is sort of stable but not compared to India and overall there's just no reason to invest in a region where you might have all of your equipment lost or stolen. Altruistic investors might feel differently of course but by definition they care less about returns then most other investors.
>Yeah. Big Ag is not incentivized to be sustainable, let alone be regenerative.
Can you expand on this point some? I'm trying to understand but I don't really see the problem. Whether the nutrition comes from the soil or the fertilizer doesn't really seem that important. I get what other posters have said about vegetables in the past being more nutritious but it's not clear to me that this matters terribly much compared to the accessibility gains from produce being cheaper and still nutritious (ableit less so).