Countries with Rapid Population Growth and Resource Constraints

Issues of Food, Agriculture, and Development

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5162239
AutoresNikos Alexandratos
Año2005
Volumen31
Número2
Páginas237-258
Fecha de publicación2005-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPopulation and Development Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0098-7921 • E-ISSN: 1728-4457
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1728-4457.2005.00064.x
OpenAlexW2044128460
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas18
Referencias citadas20

Recent long-term demographic projections suggest a fast deceleration of global population growth and the eventual peaking of world population later in this century at about 9.2 billion, roughly 50 percent above the present level. Some low-income and food-insecure countries, however, have projected populations in 2050 that are multiples of present ones. In some of these countries agriculture must play a leading role in their development efforts because they have high economic dependence on that sector. For those among them that have scarce agricultural resources, a prima facie case can be made that the high population growth rates projected may not be compatible with the development potential offered by such resources. Their demographic projections may need to be revisited, taking into account such inadequate potential. The global demographic slowdown notwithstanding, the “population explosion”-related issues pertaining to food and agriculture will not become irrelevant but will be become increasingly localized

Agriculture · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Natural resource economics · Political science · Population · Population growth · Prima facie · Resource (disambiguation) · Demography · Global Energy and Sustainability Research · Natural Resources and Economic Development · Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy