This post is also available in: Spanish (Image by Max Bohme) Towards the end of the 18th century, the economist Thomas Malthus published a study linking demographic dynamics and the dynamics of food production.
This thesis, later known as the “Malthusian catastrophe”, foresaw a situation of global pauperisation by the year 1880.
According to his analysis, population growth was growing geometrically, while food production was growing arithmetically.As is evident, the catastrophe not only did not occur, but both population growth and food production have continued to grow.The fact that nutritional deficiencies still persist for large sections of the world’s population is […]
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