Indigenous food production system and the impact of population growth: community-based examples with anthropological evidence

An excessive population growth has a consequential effect on agricultural resource-base, where a huge amount of farming land has drastically been reduced in the past few decades; and that process still continuing. Contextually, I formulate a clear statement saying that due to an excessive demogra...

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Main Author: AHM Zehadul , Karim
Format: Proceeding Paper
Language:English
English
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/37503/1/Indigenous_Food_Production_System_IUAES_2013.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/37503/4/Zehadul.pdf
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description An excessive population growth has a consequential effect on agricultural resource-base, where a huge amount of farming land has drastically been reduced in the past few decades; and that process still continuing. Contextually, I formulate a clear statement saying that due to an excessive demographic pressure, the farmers around the world go for a mechanized cultivation by making an abrupt shift from their indigenous traditional food production system to a more intensive mechanized cultivation. Based on the above contention, I make a conclusive statement with a modest caution saying that we must find some preventive mechanisms to keep our population at a replacement level. This will eventually allow us to revert to our indigenous food production system, which seems to be essential to make our planet earth more natural and habitable for the future. In spite of all upheavals and criticality, in the final part of the paper, I have provided a suggestion for integrating the indigenous food production system with that of the newly-evolved development devices for a better synthesis and fruitful outcome for the human society.
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spelling oai:generic.eprints.org:375032015-03-11T02:33:51Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/37503/ Indigenous food production system and the impact of population growth: community-based examples with anthropological evidence AHM Zehadul , Karim H Social Sciences (General) An excessive population growth has a consequential effect on agricultural resource-base, where a huge amount of farming land has drastically been reduced in the past few decades; and that process still continuing. Contextually, I formulate a clear statement saying that due to an excessive demographic pressure, the farmers around the world go for a mechanized cultivation by making an abrupt shift from their indigenous traditional food production system to a more intensive mechanized cultivation. Based on the above contention, I make a conclusive statement with a modest caution saying that we must find some preventive mechanisms to keep our population at a replacement level. This will eventually allow us to revert to our indigenous food production system, which seems to be essential to make our planet earth more natural and habitable for the future. In spite of all upheavals and criticality, in the final part of the paper, I have provided a suggestion for integrating the indigenous food production system with that of the newly-evolved development devices for a better synthesis and fruitful outcome for the human society. 2013 Proceeding Paper NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/37503/1/Indigenous_Food_Production_System_IUAES_2013.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/37503/4/Zehadul.pdf AHM Zehadul , Karim (2013) Indigenous food production system and the impact of population growth: community-based examples with anthropological evidence. In: 17th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES2013), 5th-10th August 2013, Manchester, United Kingdom. (Unpublished) http://iuaes.org/downloads/congresses/2013/IUAES2013_progamme.pdf
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Indigenous food production system and the impact of population growth: community-based examples with anthropological evidence
title Indigenous food production system and the impact of population growth: community-based examples with anthropological evidence
title_full Indigenous food production system and the impact of population growth: community-based examples with anthropological evidence
title_fullStr Indigenous food production system and the impact of population growth: community-based examples with anthropological evidence
title_full_unstemmed Indigenous food production system and the impact of population growth: community-based examples with anthropological evidence
title_short Indigenous food production system and the impact of population growth: community-based examples with anthropological evidence
title_sort indigenous food production system and the impact of population growth community based examples with anthropological evidence
topic H Social Sciences (General)
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/37503/1/Indigenous_Food_Production_System_IUAES_2013.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/37503/4/Zehadul.pdf
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