Thinking about Population and Traditional Farmers

THINKING ABOUT POPULATION AND TRADITIONAL FARMERS
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INTRODUCTION
Traditional farming refers to farming that is in absence of electricity, tractors and combines, pesticides, fossil fuels and commercial seed stock and has sustained much of the human species for decades (Desai & Pujari, 2007). Life near margin means that even the slightest transformations in regards to food supply can go a long way in enhancing changes in survival, health, ability to raise families as well as productive capabilities.
ESSAY
Population scientist Thomas Robert Malthus believed that the size of a given population together with its tendency to grow or decline was greatly determined by its food supply (Desai & Pujari, 2007). However, this was disputed by another population scientist, Boserup, who argued that food supply is quite flexible under any given form of farming. Such debates gave rise to carrying out of a survey to investigate traditional farming system and to try proving just how true ...