Demographic Change - Food Production & Population Flashcards
Neo-Malthusians
What did Malthus argue?
Population will grow faster than food supply.
Wars over food/society might end society.
Gave his name to ‘neo-Malthusians’.
Neo-Malthusians
What is the result of population growth, according to Neo-Malthusians?
What should control it?
What happens when it isn’t controlled?
Poverty
Aid
‘New barbarism’
Neo-Malthusians
What are 3 good ways of controlling the population according to neo-Malthusians?
Contraception
Abortion
Sterilisation
Neo-Malthusians
What should happen as you start to reach the food production limit?
What happens if you don’t do this?
Reduce population size
You should expect famine, war and disease.
Boserup
Malthus says that the extra people of a population will have to die.
What does Boserup say in response to this?
You just have to upgrade the productivity of the food supply.
Boserup
What does overpopulation result in?
More people to feed so people work harder to find more ways to get production out of land.
Adamson
What does Adamson argue?
Women should be educated as a form of preventing population growth as it would delay childbirth.
Adamson
Explain why educating women is an effective form of preventing population growth.
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Better able to care for family’s health.
More educated = more likely to use contraception & debate fertility with husband.
Adamson
What causes poverty and lack of development?
A high population
Adamson
What is wrong with aid focused on reducing population?
Why?
It’s misguided.
In places where fertility has declined (eg Cuba), women have had good access to health & education.
Who put forward the idea of ‘New Barbarism’?
Kaplan, 1994
Kaplan
What did Kaplan (1994) say ‘New Barbarism’ was?
We don’t need war to be barbaric as overpopulation & exhaustion of resources lead to civil wars in developed countries.
