Burama
I am not downplaying factor in resource utilisation. It is the publication that you reference that are giving us the only dominant narrative framing of population growth nexus natural resources causation. It becomes the only acceptable hypothesis. The resulting factor such as poverty international political economic power and power relation of resource use and control id always negated.
Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 07:05:46 -0400
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You may have a point and am not disputing.
Regardless increasing demand of any resources means scarcity. Population is one of the variables that with any increase will reduce either quality or quantity of a said resource. I have not seen a study that puts every blame of land degradation on population but surely a factor.
Yes we are agrarian. Isn't that people in need of land for food production - hence more/faster depletion. As humans we can change from agrarian and/or improve on techniques. Isn't that management?
International trade and debt, especially debt servicing for The Gambia is a problem. Again proper and inform management should ameliorate some of those problems. On the flip side trade is not only good but important.
Fair trade is more a political phenomenon than it's economic. In economics trade is anchored on comparative advantage theorem.
Unless you totally exclude and/or downplay the role of population increase we are in agreement.
Regards
Burama
On Friday, May 30, 2014, abdoukarim sanneh <
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Burama
That is neomalthusian narrative. Population growth is always use as the cause and the results factor is negated. The results to resource degradation is beyond demographic narrative of population growth. We are an agrarian economy and so depend on natural resources for livelihoods. Poverty nexus land degradation is was negligent and population growth always take a center stage and becomes the dominant thesis. Do you look into international political economic issues such debt and its impact on mortgaging our natural resources in servicing debtors. Lack of fair trade and it's association poverty natural resources uses etc.
Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 05:23:42 -0400
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Gambia is considered one of the overcrowded nation by all estimators including WHO’s
Having 1.7million on about 11000 sq. km = 155 people/sq. km. Considering not all of the 11K is not land - some water, some forest, roads, etc is highly dense.
Gambia at one time (some times in the 90s) used to be the fasted growing in the sub region. Not only due to natural birth but also the subregional conflicts contributed to that trench
Estimates (WHO 2010) - 55% are living in the urban area - that means we are not symmetrically spread over the nation.
Multi- factors contributed to resources degradation (resources in the broader sense) - some natural and o