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The Conditions of Agricultural Growth. The Economics of Agrarian Change under Population Pressure
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This article is published in Population.The article was published on 1966-03-01. It has received 1122 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Agrarian society.read more
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Reversal of fortune: geography and institutions in the making of the modern world income distribution*
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the reversal in relative incomes of colonized countries during the past 500 years resulted from societies with good institutions taking advantage of the opportunity to industrialize.
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Dynamics of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change in Tropical Regions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the complexity of land-use/cover change and propose a framework for a more general understanding of the issue, with emphasis on tropical regions, and argue that a systematic analysis of local-scale land use change studies, conducted over a range of timescales, helps to uncover general principles that provide an explanation and prediction of new land use changes.
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Putting people in the map: anthropogenic biomes of the world
Erle C. Ellis,Navin Ramankutty +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented the first characterization of terrestrial biomes based on global patterns of sustained, direct human interaction with ecosystems and identified the anthropogenic biomes through empirical analysis of global population, land use, and land cover.
Farming Systems and Poverty IMPROVING FARMERS' LIVELIHOODS IN A CHANGING WORLD
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a study originally undertaken at the request of the World Bank in order to provide a specifically agricultural perspective to the revision of the Bank's rural development strategy.
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On the Threshold: Environmental Changes as Causes of Acute Conflict
TL;DR: This article is an abridged version of a paper prepared for the Global Environmental Change Committee of the Social Science Research Council and for a conference on ”Emerging Trends in Global Security” convened by York University in October, 1990.