PPT-Boserup was an economist who believed that subsistence farmers

intensify production by leaving land fallow for shorter periods adopt new farming methods Ester Boserup In order to farm land more efficiently plows must be used more weeding must take place. LDCs. ?. C10K2. Objectives. Shifting Cultivation. Pastoral . Nomadism. Intensive Subsistence Agriculture. Plantation Farming. Shifting Cultivation?. Where? . Practiced . in Humid Low-Latitude (high temps & abundant rainfall) South America, Central/West Africa, & SE Asia. E. conomics. E S S E N T I A L S O F. N. Gregory Mankiw. Premium PowerPoint Slides . by Ron Cronovich. 2. THINKING LIKE AN ECONOMIST. 1. The Economist as Scientist. Economists play two roles:. 1. . Subsistence. Subsistence:. Types of Subsistence Strategies. Food Collectors. Food Producers. Horticulturalists. Pastoralists. Intensive (and mechanized) . agricultualists. Variation of Food-Getting . Management . in Mediation. Doctoral Dissertation. Uppsala. 13 February 2015. Hans Boserup. Hand Outs. Both this PowerPoint. and. A copy of my speech paper can be found at:. www.mediator.dk. A limited number of hand outs are available at the defence. Write this somewhere on your sheet. Socioeconomic—. Social or economic factors that affect the lives of average, working people in a country. (I think this gave a lot of you trouble on your FRQ’s). AGRICULTURE: . PRIMARY ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES. ADVANCED PLACEMENT HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. Session 2. MAJOR AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION REGIONS. Agricultural practices . vary widely across the globe.. The most basic distinctions in agricultural products are made between . A Thought Experiment to . Help us Envisage the . Economist of Tomorrow. Molly Scott Cato. Reader in Green Economics, Cardiff School of Management. Where we are going. The peculiar power of the economist. What would you do if you could not afford food?. Agriculture (farming). Defined as the . growing of crops and raising of livestock. Prior to farming, how did people get food?. Hunting and gathering. Two Types of Agriculture. PRIMARY ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES. ADVANCED PLACEMENT HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. Session 2. MAJOR AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION REGIONS. Agricultural practices . vary widely across the globe.. The most basic distinctions in agricultural products are made between . Population and Migration Unit. Thomas Malthus. Ester . Boserup. Malthus. Malthus . believed that there was a finite optimum population in relation to food supply and that an increase beyond that point would lead to a decline in living standards and to war, famine and disease. Economic issues of commercial farmers. Access to markets. Overproduction. Sustainable agriculture. Economic issues of subsistence farmers. Population growth. International trade. Increasing food supply. FERTILE CRESCENT. -area between Asia and Europe. -good soil for farming. -many different people migrate there. - lots of . cultural diffusion. MESOPOTAMIA. -Area of land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Learning . Objectives: Subsistence Unit. 1. Identify the subsistence patterns found in human societies. 2. Identify the cultural characteristics of a society that might be inferred from knowing the society’s subsistence patterns. . Subsistence . What type of food did the Iroquois eat?. Subsistence . What type of food did the Iroquois eat?. Iroquois were mostly farmers. They grew crops like, . beans. , . sunflowers. , . squash.