ANTHROP 2AN3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Thomas Robert Malthus, Bovine Somatotropin, Nervous System Disease
13 Apr 2014
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Because food production didn"t become static, we found ways to increase it. Without all of these inputs, the new varieties would actually do worse than the old varieties. Small increase in the area planted, big increase in the whole population. Technology wasn"t spread equally-some people benefited way more than others. Farmers couldn"t afford to buy seeds, fertilizers and equipment. Africa didn"t get the benefits that other countries did. Environmental degradation- if you"re using nitrogen, it goes into groundwater. Loss of species variety and variety of plants. Loss of agricultural knowledge, ex crop rotation: you can rotate the crops a certain way to manipulate the nutrients in the soil. A minority of farms are producing the vast majority of foods that we eat. Enables more people to get away from food production. Food is regulated by the government by quality checks. Pressure on farmers because of the world markets.
