FARE 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Median Income, Natural Capital, Anthropocentrism

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Unit 1 (sept 11) visions of the future. Carrying capacity: the number of people, other living organisms or crops that a region can support without environmental degradation. Thomas robert malthus (pessimism: an essay on the principle of population, 1798. The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race ( chapter 7, pg. Ester boserup (optimism: the conditions of agricultural growth: the economics of agrarian change under population pressure, 1965, necessity is the mother of invention. High yielding varieties, hybrid seeds, synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, irrigation infrastructure modernization of farm management techniques. 795 million undernourished globally, 10. 9% of the worlds population: 12. 9% in developing regions. Food waste: global food losses and food waste extent, causes and prevention, fao 2011. Roughly 1/3 of food produced for human consumption is wasted globally: 1. 3 billon tonnes per year.

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