Rules for Agrarian Change: Negri Sembilan Malays and Agricultural Innovation

1976 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane K. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Agrarian Change ◽  
Rice Farming ◽  
Agricultural Change ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Agricultural Innovation ◽  
Cash Crops ◽  
Farming Village

This paper explores receptivity to agrarian change in a Malay rice farming village in Negri Sembilan in 1958–59. Villagers, who earlier were extremely resistant to agricultural change, were at that time experiencing an acceleration and convergence of several trends, among them population growth, governmental attempts to introduce new techniques in food production and increasing reliance on cash crops to buy food. A gradual acceptance of agricultural change was beginning to occur but acceptance was highly selective and the basis of selectivity was not immediately apparent. This paper attempts to specify factors responsible for the selective use of new techniques as well as those crucial to overall change.

Population Fluctuation and the Adoption of Food Production in Prehistoric Korea: Using Radiocarbon Dates as a Proxy for Population Change

Radiocarbon ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 59 (6) ◽  
pp. 1761-1770 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongje Oh ◽  
Matthew Conte ◽  
Seungho Kang ◽  
Jangsuk Kim ◽  
Jaehoon Hwang
Keyword(s):  
Probability Distribution ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Population Change ◽  
Population Pressure ◽  
Population Fluctuation ◽  
Intensive Agriculture ◽  
Rice Farming ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Transition To Agriculture

AbstractPopulation growth has been evoked both as a causal factor and consequence of the transition to agriculture. The use of radiocarbon (14C) dates as proxies for population allows for reevaluations of population as a variable in the transition to agriculture. In Korea, numerous rescue excavations during recent decades have offered a wealth of14C data for this application. A summed probability distribution (SPD) of14C dates is investigated to reconstruct population trends preceding and following adoptions of food production in prehistoric Korea. Important cultivars were introduced to Korea in two episodes: millets during the Chulmun Period (ca. 6000–1500 BCE) and rice during the Mumun Period (ca. 1500–300 BCE). The SPD suggests that while millet production had little impact on Chulmun populations, a prominent surge in population appears to have followed the introduction of rice. The case in prehistoric Korea demonstrates that the adoption of food production does not lead inevitably towards sustained population growth. Furthermore, the data suggest that the transition towards intensive agriculture need not occur under conditions of population pressure resulting from population growth. Rather, intensive rice farming in prehistoric Korea began during a period of population stagnation.

Land Use and Agricultural Productivity in Zimbabwe

1985 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Weiner ◽  
Sam Moyo ◽  
Barry Munslow ◽  
Phil O'Keefe
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Security Strategy ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Cash Crops

Given a continuation of current trends, with increasing population growth and declining food production, Southern Africa (excluding South Africa) which could nearly feed itself during 1979–81, will be only 64 per cent self-sufficient by the turn of the century. Zimbabwe has a particularly important rôle to play in trying to prevent such a disaster. It is by far the most important exporter of food and cash crops in the region, and has been allocated the task of co-ordinating a food-security strategy for the nine member-states of the Southern African Development Co-ordination Conference, namely Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Agrarian change in Kusasi, north-east Ghana

Africa ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 437-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Webber
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Farming System ◽  
Agrarian Change ◽  
Agricultural System ◽  
Agricultural Change ◽  
Progressive Change ◽  
Sustainable Systems ◽  
North East ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the nature of agrarian change in the Kusasi area of north-east Ghana. In focusing upon the dynamic of population growth the study has relevance to the recently rejoined discussion concerning the relationship between population growth and agricultural change. The context in which population growth is proceeding in Kusasi is presented as significantly different from that of other parts of tropical Africa where population growth has been recognised as the dynamic bringing about more productive and sustainable systems. In Kusasi's peripheral and subsistence-oriented economy population growth has led to increased pressure on the biological resources of the region. The permanent compound farming system of the area is now increasingly unable to provide sufficient subsistence for household needs, and, although expansion of farmland into areas recently freed from onchocerciasis is taking place, this is interpreted as merely a temporary respite in the interrelated processes of continuing environmental degradation and declining productivity under the prevailing agricultural system. The article raises the question of how, in the absence of progressive change brought about by population growth, development for regions like Kusasi is to be envisaged. Current programmes of agricultural development are considered in the context of past initiatives.

The Issue of Sustainability in Third World Food Production (The Distinguishedl Lecture)

1992 ◽  
Vol 31 (4I) ◽  
pp. 511-534
Author(s):  
Winfried Von Urff
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Third World ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Absolute Number ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
World Food ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
The Difference

In spite of the fact that food production in developing countries doubled over the last 25 years undernutrition is still widely spread. At the beginning of the eighties, according to FAO, 335 to 494 million people in developing countries suffered from serious undernutrition the difference being due to different concepts to determine undernutrition on which scientist were unable to find a consensus.) Unfortunately there is no recent comprehensive analysis of the food situation comparable to those of previous World Food Surveys but it can be taken for sure that the absolute number of undernourished has increased. According to unofficial FAO sources a figure of 870 million was estimated for 1990 (22 percent of the total population in developing countries) using the same concept that led to the figure of 494 million in 1979-81 (23 percent of the total population in developing countries) which means that most probably the number of undernourished increased at a rate slightly less than population growth.

scholarly journals Food Production, Population Growth, and Environmental Security

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gretchen Daily ◽  
Partha Dasgupta ◽  
Bert Bolin ◽  
Pierre Crosson ◽  
Jacques du Guerny ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Environmental Security

Population Growth and Agricultural Change in Africa

1995 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 639
Author(s):  
James L. Giblin ◽  
B.L. Turner II ◽  
Goran Hyden ◽  
Robert Kates
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Agricultural Change

scholarly journals An Econometric Validation of Malthusian Theory: Evidence in Nigeria

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-90
Author(s):  
Musa Abdullahi Sakanko ◽  
Joseph David
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Time Series Data ◽  
Control Measure ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Short Run ◽  
The Government ◽  
Bound Test ◽  
Malthusian Theory

Rising population is an asset, provided, the skills of the workforce are used to the maximum extent. If not appropriately channelized, it can be a liability for a nation. A skilled and hardworking population can emerge as a foundation for a country’s development. This study examines the validity of Malthusian Theory in Nigeria using time series data from 1960 to 2016, employs the ARDL bound test techniques. The result shows that in the long-run, population growth and food production move proportionately, while population growth poses a depleting effect on food production in the short-run, thus validating the incidence of Malthusian impact in Nigerian economy in the short-run. The researcher recommended the government should strategize plans, which will further intensify family planning and birth control measure, compulsory western education and revitalization of the agricultural sector.DOI: 10.150408/sjie.v7i1.6461

scholarly journals Population and Food Resources

2011 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anamaria CIURE ◽  
Ioan ROTAR
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Food Resources ◽  
Basic Material ◽  
Growing Population ◽  
Malthusian Theory

Demographic explosion of the early modern society, which constituated the basic material for the Malthusian theory, is a major problem of mankind. Population growth remains high in absolute terms (in 1950 lived on earth only 2.5 million inhabitants in 1970 were 3.2 billion and in 2006 were 6.68 billion people). As a result of population growth, agriculture, the main segment which provides food resources, can significantly restrict the activities currently being allotted to each man 0.56 ha farm, of which the 0.26 ha arable. Because scenarios predict a growing population it is required the increasing of current levels of food production more than proportionally with population growth, so as to provide a proper diet for many people.

Population Growth and Agricultural Change in Africa.

1995 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 184
Author(s):  
Geffrey McNicoll ◽  
B. L. Turner II ◽  
Goran Hyden ◽  
Robert W. Kates
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Agricultural Change
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