ISCI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Guardians Of The Universe, Norman Borlaug, Plant Pathology
25 Oct 2015
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Form off intensification: way to increase productivity & carrying capacity of given unit of land. Crops cultivated, harvested, stored, distributed (chsd: human & animal muscle power. Spring -> field -> spray roundup -> wait -> plant: spring -> field plant & apply roundup simultaneously. Essay on the principle of population (1798: food supply grows arithmetically (1, 2, 3, 4, , population grows exponentially (1, 2, 4, 8, 16 . ) Malthus didn"t anticipate: technology more food, affluence, green revolution. Nelson borlaug (nobel peace prize 1970: plant pathologist, aware of human population doubling. Need more crops: (today, for example, to feed 9 billion ppl in, say, 2050) % increase in food production: est. Mexico (mass starvation: vid -> turn mexico into & exporter of wheat. *scale in lecture slide: most impact on nature (gr), organic farming, permaculture, natural farming, least impact on nature (hunter-gatherer)
