Malthus VS Boserup
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- Malthus and Boserup had different opinions regarding population sustainability, to what extent do you argue with each opinion and why?
- Malthus
- Thomas Robert Malthus
- Economist
- 18th Century
- 'An Essay on the Principle of Population'
- 1798
- Showed his theory of population growth
- If the pop. grows = not enough food
- Causes famines
- The human pop at risk of outgrowing its carrying capacity
- Number of individuals that can be supported by a specific habitat
- stated two types of checks
- 1.negative= decrease in birth rate
- 2. positive increased in death rate
- assumption that the pop. would grow exponentially (1,2,4,8) whereas food production would grow linearly (1,2,3,4)
- Against Malthus
- Industrial Revolution hadn't arrived yet e.g. pesticides and fertilisers
- 250 years since it was published
- 7 billion people in 2011
- Didn't experience advances in technology and agriculture
- Didn't account for the advances
- But Boserup did
- Number of famine deaths was decreased
- For Malthus
- theory on the population growth was correct
- population continues to rise rapidly
- Farming practices are heavily dependent on unsustainable substances e.g. oil
- Millions survive on basic diets
- Malnourished
- Boserup
- 1965
- 'The conditions of agriculture growth: Economics of agrarian change under population pressure
- suggested that food production can increase to match the needs of the pop.
- Argued starvation =motivation for people to improve their farming methods
- = new technologies invented
- Agricultural intensification
- increase production at the cost of more work at longer efficiently
- For Boserup
- Included industralisation
- Farming, green revolution, GM crops, land reform
- Problems of having finite land (running out) and food shortages have been over come by technology
- Included industralisation
- Malthus
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