GEOG 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Ester Boserup, Subsistence Agriculture, Thomas Robert Malthus
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Food needs are a function of population size, age structure & income, food demand expected to grow 2. 7% per year partly due to increasing. Geog 5 notes income: regionally = potential problems w/food supply. 54% decline in freshwater wildlife populations: renewable resources less productive overall and nonrenewable becoming depleted, green revolution: rockefeller"s" money in 1950"s- develop higher yielding varieties of wheat for mx conditions. Research increased yields of rice & wheat in latin america, india, Terminator" plants bred to die out after 2 generations. Breed for post/disease resistance; for tolerance for marginal conditions; for increased protein (quantity & quality); expanded suite of n2 fixing crops: debate over population control: politics & economics; immigration; religion. Draconian measures (harsh ways of dealing with something- old school) Women"s empowerment: thomas malthus (1798): pop. grows exponentially while food production grows arithmetically (linearly) Food production is finite (can only grow arithmetically) Unregulated pop. growth lead to irish potato famine.
