I could do that in my back yard – which is not that big – so I am a little doubtful of whether that would be enough. But I could be wrong.
I don’t have any set lists. That would be difficult because families differ, climates differ, the quality of the land differs.
For a vegan “nutrition garden” a la John Jeavons, see http://www.cityfarmer.org/albie.html. This was done in 2500 square feet for one person, but he would have ended up fasting for several months if he had been totally dependent on it because the potatoes didn’t do so well. There are books that go with this method like “How to Grow More Vegetables” by John Jeavons and “One Circle: How to Grow a Complete Diet in Less Than 1,000 Square Feet” by David Duhon and Cindy Gebhard. I have “How to Grow More Vegetables…” but don’t have a copy of “One Circle..”, so I don’t know if there were any real life trials associated with that particular book (One Circle).
For another source targeted at third-world countries, see http://www.nzdl.org/gsdlmod?e=d-00000-00—off-0envl–00-0—-0-10-0—0—0direct-10—4——-0-1l–11-en-50—20-about—00-0-1-00-0–4—-0-0-11-10-0utfZz-8-00&cl=CL1.2&d=HASHbcd787cd704836ff7188b6.4.1>=1
The one above is from the New Zealand Digital Library and has some really good stuff. (www.nzdl.org).
We used to rent rooms to visiting scholars at the university, when we had a much bigger house, and one from China told us that he grew up in a village. The system there was that each family was given enough land to feed themselves and maybe make a little extra. They were given one-quarter of an acre for each family member (a little over 10,000 square feet per person). His mother did all the farming. They raised a lot of potatoes and maize (grew better than rice in their region), some vegetables, one pig a year, and some chickens for eggs. They pretty much had to be self-sufficient. That was the system. But they didn’t get much in the way of meat and eggs because his mother would sell most of those products for other things they needed. They used the lard for cooking. A typical meal was potatoes and maize (corn) cooked with lard and a few pickled vegetables. They had meat once or twice a year. That’s what a quarter of an acre per person provided them. I don’t know what the condition of the land was.