PMID: 8962168Dec 10, 1996Paper

Induced intensification: agricultural change in Bangladesh with implications for Malthus and Boserup

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
B L Turner, A M Ali

Abstract

Bangladesh is dominated by a small-holder agrarian economy under extreme stress. Production shortfalls, increasing economic polarization, and chronic malnutrition are persistent, but major famine has been diverted in part by significant growth in agriculture. This recent history is open to both Malthusian and Boserupian interpretations-a history we explore here through a test of the induced intensification thesis of agricultural change. This thesis, framed by variations in the behavior of small-holders, has grown from a simple demand-production relationship to a consideration of the mediating influences on that relationship. The induced intensification thesis is reviewed and tested for 265 households in 6 villages in Bangladesh from 1950-1986. A time-series analysis of an induced intensification model provides relatively high levels of explained variance in cropping intensity (frequency and land productivity) and also indicates the relative impacts of household class, environment, and cropping strategies. On average, the small-holders in question kept pace with the demands on production, although important class and village variations were evident and the proportion of landless households increased. These results, coupled with ...Continue Reading

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Mar 27, 2010·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America·Rinku Roy Chowdhury
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