1. World Food Cost and Refuting Thomas Malthus
ESTHER BOSERUP AND One week of food around the world.

2. Esther Boserup
Esther Boserup (1910-’99) was a Danish economist who worked in India and other low-middle income countries. She shaped the theory that human growth actually leads to increased food, which refuted the ideas of a previous amateur economist known as Thomas Malthus, who suggested that human population is limited by the amount of food it can produce
According to Boserup, the threat of starvation and challenge of feeding more mouths motivates people to improve farming methods and invent new technologies (known as “agricultural intensification”).

3. Boserup’s Theory in Graph Form

4. For Example…
Ron Finley “The Guerilla Gardner of South Central LA” shows us how Boserup’s theory can be put into practice.

5. Germany: The Melander family of Bargteheide Food expenditure for one week: 375.39 Euros or $500.07

6. United States: The Revis family of North Carolina Food expenditure for one week $341.98

7. Italy: The Manzo family of Sicily Food expenditure for one week: 214
Italy: The Manzo family of Sicily Food expenditure for one week: Euros or $260.11

8. Mexico: The Casales family of Cuernavaca Food expenditure for one week: 1, Mexican Pesos or $189.09

9. Poland: The Sobczynscy family of Konstancin-Jeziorna Food expenditure for one week: Zlotys or $151.27

10. Egypt: The Ahmed family of Cairo Food expenditure for one week: 387
Egypt: The Ahmed family of Cairo Food expenditure for one week: Egyptian Pounds or $68.53

11. Ecuador: The Ayme family of Tingo Food expenditure for one week: $31

12. Bhutan: The Namgay family of Shingkhey Village Food expenditure for one week: ngultrum or $5.03

13. Chad: The Aboubakar family of Breidjing Camp Food expenditure for one week: 685 CFA Francs or $1.23