Population pressure, the environment and agricultural intensification : variations on the Boserup hypothesis (English)

The interaction between population growth, the environment, and agricultural intensification raises the most compelling and most controversial issues currently facing developing countries. Given the low initial population densities, the benefits of increasing population on agricultural development have been widely documented by Boserup in 1961 and Ruthenberg in 1982. These authors argued that slowly increasing population densities have desirable effects...
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Lele,Uma; Stone, Steven W..

Population pressure, the environment and agricultural intensification : variations on the Boserup hypothesis (English). Managing Agricultural Development in Africa (MADIA) discussion paper ; no. 4 Washington, D.C. : The World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/809971468739234405

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