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Influential people in AG
ie. green rev
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Agriculture
Undergraduate 2
03/16/2009

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