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In Australia we currently produce enough food for 60 million people. This is without any intensive farming techniques at all. This could be scaled up by a factor of ten if it was really necessary, but quality of life per capita would suffer.
I think smaller nations are as a general rule governed much better, so I don't see any positives in increasing our population beyond the current 24 million people.