GEOG 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Food Security, Social Inequality, Demographic Transition
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Is it true that poverty is a result of population pressure. No because the graph shows that it is flat. Diagram suggests that there is no such relationship. Have high densities in bangladesh but also in netherlands and live very differently. Human development index vs. population growth: no general trend and certainly no downward trend. Development of the world: population will even off, naturally tailing off, demographic transition from low populations to acceleration to stabilization. As families become better off, birth rates tail off. This has been the historical experience of europeans as they industrialized. You can intensify growing of things with. New seed forms that were much more efficient, much more grain per unit of green material and were bred to be resistant in wider varity of climates; focus on wheat and rice=major grain crops. They can grow more food per acre and then hunger will fall. Based on research done in the united states.
