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| '''Ester Boserup''' (] - ], ]), born ''Børgesen'', was a ] ] and ] who studied economical and agricultural development. She worked at the ] and other international organizations and wrote several books. | |||
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| Boserup's most notable work is ''The Conditions of Agricultural Growth: The Economics of Agrarian Change under Population Pressure'' (Chicago, Aldine, 1965, ISBN 0-415-31298-1). This book presented a "dynamic analysis embracing all types of primitive ]." In doing so, she upended the assumption dating back to ] time (and still held in many quarters) that agricultural methods determine ] (via food supply). Instead, she shows that population determines agricultural methods. A major point of her book is that "necessity is the mother of invention". | |||
| She argued that when ] is low enough to allow it, land tends to be used | |||
| intermittently, with heavy reliance on fire to clear fields and fallowing to restore fertility (often called ] farming). Numerous studies have shown such methods to be favourable in total workload and also effiency (output versus input). In Boserup’s theory, it is only when rising population density curtails the use of ]ing (and therefore the use of fire) that fields are moved towards annual cultivation. Contending with insufficiently fallowed, less fertile plots, covered with grass or bushes rather than forest, mandates expanded efforts at fertilizing, field preparation, weed control, and irrigation. These changes often induce agricultural innovation but increase marginal labour cost to the farmer as well: the higher the rural population density, the more hours the farmer must work for the same amount of produce. Therefore workloads tend to rise while efficiency drops. This process of raising production at the cost of more work at lower efficiency is what Boserup describes as "]". | |||
| The theory has been instrumental in understanding agricultural patterns in ], although it is highly simplified and generalized. | |||
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| * Economic History net's review of | |||
| Boserupian is totally different to Malthusian; her view has a positive impact on the population growth. She believed that population growth causes agricultural growth because when something (in this example, food) starts to run out, we will invent or innovate our way to solve the problem. | |||
| For example, human invented farming because we were starting to run out of hunted food. Therefore, population growth can cause the running out of food but also make human invent something new which makes human more civilised. Neo-Malthusian argued that Boserupian totally ignore the environmental impact of population and agricultural growth. (Edited by Felix Leung) | |||
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