HUM 2395 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: List Of Countries By Intentional Homicide Rate, Hernando De Soto, Megacity
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Growth of urban vs. growth of rural population. As the number in people increase, the number of urban population increases. The growth of agricultural productivity is very important in preventing mass famine. Green revolution: began to take shape in the middle of the 20th century: hyv (high yield variety) seeds. Genetically modified seeds: pesticides, herbicides, irrigation. Hyv seeds require irrigation to flourish: tractors. As a result of the green revolution is the rural to urban migration: it takes fewer amount of people to produce the large yield of supplies. Un finds more than half of the people now live in cities. Many of these megacities live in western asia. The urbanization in the 1990s were a result of industrialization: this was a pattern in europe and america. Urbanization without industrialization: emergence of informal economy. Working n business that don"t have licenses. Include street vendors, domestic service (maids), sex work (prostitution), and criminal economy (narco-trafficking)
