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Title: Influential people in AG

Description: ie. green rev

Total Flash Cards: 16

Created: 03/16/2009 20:38:09

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Term
Malthus
Definition
two postulates 1. necessity of food 2. steady state of passion between the sexes. growth curves: population (geomteric growth) versus agricultural (arithmetic) production
Term
Waggoner
Definition
Technology will help to feed ten billion people but we need to be concerned with the side effects. Jeffersons imperative! concentration on intensification
Term
Ruttan
Definition
Frontier, diffusion, conservation, high pay off imput, urban-industrial, induced innovation
Term
Kush
Definition
Harvest Index, components of a green rev technology
Term
Yunus
Definition
Grammen Bank, Group based lending (rotating credit)
Term
Collier
Definition
Mexican landreform, privitazation, ejido, peasant community
Term
Orme
Definition
tenure reform, rent control, services, export led economic growth
Term
Degnbol-Matinussen and Engberg - Pederson
Definition
60-70's (trickle down- large capital projects)70's(intergrated rural development)
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Chambers
Definition
CDR complex diverse risk prone ag, vs. green ag
Term
Hardin
Definition
Tragedy of the commons
Term
Vavilov
Definition
Centers of domestication
Term
Wagner
Definition
Ladder of development
Term
Julian Simon
Definition
Possibilism view: earth will renew itself through innovation
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Ehrlic
Definition
Came up with the I = PAT equation to determine ecological footprint
Term
Amartya sen
Definition
Future in development may be BLAST or GALA
Term
Haq
Definition



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