... production. Boserup Ester food and population food production Malthusians postcolonial settings food and population approaches local knowledge and conditions Malthus Thomas Robert population increases agriculture modern or settled alternative agricultural strategies land arable land subsistence...

... to the traditional methods of agriculture and food production that had flourished because of Hunza's isolation from the world. If Hunza's location earlier was seen as being on the margins of—and even beyond—civilization, it was now seen as a refuge from civilization and modern society...

... with a humanitarian veneer. By the late 1970s, politicians and businessmen were increasingly declaring their intent to rewrite the rules of global food production and trade on entirely profit-driven terms. Building on Cold War-inspired modernization and development projects initiated in the 1940s–1960s, U.S.-based...

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... of Malthus fail to acknowledge his narrow understanding of what constitutes food production. The book returns to the eighteenth-century contexts that generated his arguments, showing how Malthus mobilized a redemptive narrative of British historical development and dismissed the varied ways that people...

... forward to modern achievements like the city, technology, and a scientific knowledge base. The chapter presents a diagram of Malthusian reasoning, which simulates many different connections between food production and historical change. It points to a model of connected social and political formations...

... disregard across the colonial world and enshrined in later nineteenth-century neoclassical economics. By training the gaze upon eighteenth-century food production and its environments, the chapter explains that the book's treatment of Malthusian ideas focuses on the structural inequality at the heart...

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...This chapter talks about Dig for Victory, which is a campaign launched by the Ministry of Agriculture after the outbreak of war in October 1939 to step up home-food production. It emphasizes the need for food production in Britain during the time as the country imported 75 percent of its food...