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provides a new analysis of population and agricultural growth.
argues that we can't make sense of population and food production
without recognizing the drivers of three fundamentally different
types of agriculture: Malthusian (expansion), industrialization
(external-input-dependent) and intensification (labour-based).
upends entrenched misconceptions such as that we are running out of
land for food production and that our only hope is development of
new agricultural technologies written in an engaging style,
containing vignettes, short histories and global case studies will
not only be of interest to students and scholars of agriculture,
land management and development, but also those more widely
interested in learning about agri-food systems and the challenges
of feeding a growing population.
provides a new analysis of population and agricultural growth.
argues that we can't make sense of population and food production
without recognizing the drivers of three fundamentally different
types of agriculture: Malthusian (expansion), industrialization
(external-input-dependent) and intensification (labour-based).
upends entrenched misconceptions such as that we are running out of
land for food production and that our only hope is development of
new agricultural technologies written in an engaging style,
containing vignettes, short histories and global case studies will
not only be of interest to students and scholars of agriculture,
land management and development, but also those more widely
interested in learning about agri-food systems and the challenges
of feeding a growing population.
What determines agrarian settlement patterns? Glenn Davis Stone
addresses this question by analyzing the spatial aspects of
agrarian ecology--the relationship between how farmers farm and
where they settle--and how farming and settlement change as
population density rises. Crosscutting the fields of cultural
anthropology, archaeology, geography, and agricultural economics,
"Settlement Ecology" presents a new perspective on the process of
agricultural intensification and explores the relationships between
intensification and settlement decision making. Stone insists that
paleotechnic ("traditional") agriculture must be seen as a social
process, with the social organization of agricultural work playing
a key role in shaping settlement characteristics. These
relationships are demonstrated in a richly documented case study of
the Kofyar, who have been settling a frontier in the Nigerian
savanna. The history of agricultural change and the development of
the settlement pattern are reconstructed through ethnography,
archival research, and aerial photos and are analyzed using
innovative graphical methods. Stone also reflects on the limits of
ecological determination of settlement, comparing the farming and
settlement trajectories of the Kofyar and Tiv on the same frontier.
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