Why would farming be a more beneficial way of life than hunting and gathering?

Neolithic RevolutionWhy would farming be a more beneficial way of life than hunting and gathering?
Not that farming does not have its disadvantages but could you image that in every family of five they hard three hunter and the current world population is well over 6 billion. Certainly farming has brought about settlement, leading to a more appealing form of civilization and more may be. With the growing concern for the preservation of our ecology, and/or the protection of wildlife, we would have ran out food by now or the worlds population would never had gotten to this level. Which ever way you view this farming in a way is more beneficial than hunting, in that we have the power - in this case I mean knowledge, and all that facilitates it - to manipulate crops and livestock's to meet our demands for food. Agriculture has its limitations but compared to hunting it is more beneficial. There are other advantages of farming to consider just as mentioned by others answering your question.Why would farming be a more beneficial way of life than hunting and gathering?
It's a question of availability.


If you go out gathering, once you have taken the fruit in your vicinity, you have to travel further afield. The same with hunting. You have to find the prey, and then successfully catch/kill them.





But, if you farm, you can grow your own produce next to and around where you choose to live. You can choose the ideal location and then grow your food where you are.
It was easier on people. People could settle down in a permanent place, rather than move with their food. They could grow surplus to eat during the winter and have a place to store it so they wouldn't starve. Shelter would always be available unlike with the nomadic lifestyle.
You would have greater variety than the ';take what you can get'; of hunting/gathering. You could also develop varieties of food.
you can obtain much much much more food from an acre of land by farming than you could by simply hunting and gathering.