SOC 808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Northern Canada, Government Cut, Food Security
12 May 2016
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According to malthus, if unchecked population increases at a geometric rate (i. e. 2, 4, 8, 16, etc. ) whereas the food supply grows at an arithmetic rate (i. e. 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. ) This lead a gap in the long run. Population growth exceeds food production which leads to famine. According to malthus only natural causes, misery, moral restraint and vice could check excessive population growth. Industrial revolution and green revolutions: showed that improvements in technology could result in significant increases in production and yields and malthusian arguments seemed to be forgotten. Economic developments leads to a tendency from high birth rates and death rates to low birth and death rates. Other demographers such as mamdani (1972), pointed out that poor people are not poor because they have more children, but they have more children because they are poor. For the poor each child may be considered as an extra hand to help the family and as old age insurance.
