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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Copyright
- © Published by Oxford University Press.
- ISSN
- 0305-7364
- eISSN
- 1095-8290
- DOI
- 10.1006/anbo.1999.0851
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Abstract
Annals of Botany 83 : 589±591, 1999 Article No. anbo.1999.0851, available online at http:}}www.idealibrary.com on Evans LT. 1998. Feeding the ten billion. 247 pp. Cambridge : question of whether human population (i.e. us en masse)is Cambridge University Press. £11.95 (softback) £35.00 the driving variable determining agricultural development (hardback). (as argued by Este Boserup) or whether food supply determines population (the Malthusian view) is concisely set In 1798 Malthus published Essay on the principal of out. The following nine chapters consider population growth population addressing the balance between population and agriculture as a progression from the appearance of growth and food supply. Then the world population was Homo sapiens sapiens (how sapient may be tested in the next 800 million, today it is 6 billion. By 2050 it will be 10 billion. 50 years) to ®ve million (by 8000 BC), ®fty million We face the prospect of 4 billion more of us in 50 years : can (8000±2000 BC), the ®rst half-billion (2000±1500 BC) and the planet carry this additional population ? It is almost then each further billion to our current 6 billion, each 80 % of the increase in number but in 25 % of the time since
Journal
Annals of Botany – Oxford University Press
Published: May 1, 1999