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Introduction To Ester Boserup
Introduction To Ester Boserup
SIMON (ANTI MALTHUSIAN THEORISTS) is one or two years. In the fallow period
the land is invaded by wild grasses.
Prepared by: GROUP 3 Annual cropping: The land is left
uncultivated for only several months
ESTER BOSERUP between harvest and planting. Within this
group Boserup also includes crop rotation
Ester Boserup was a Danish economist. She systems.
studied economic and agricultural development,
worked at the United Nations as well as other Multi-cropping: Occurs when the same
international organizations, and wrote seminal plot of land bears two or more crops every
books on agrarian change and the role of year; in such a system there is no real
women in development. fallow period.