Not totally trivial, but not difficult, either.
However, I believe that food is an important strategic resource, and as such, management of it is part of war.
If you remove food as a factor on the War Islands, rural regions essentially cease to have meaning. Looting your enemy loses half its punch.
So many things depend on food being a factor.
Nah actually looting rurals has more effect now than it ever has because it kills the income of fringe knights that nobody care about and so become disaffected and quit.