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«Wo Menschen in den Tropen verharrten, litten sie, mit wenigen Ausnahmen, unter Entwicklungshemmungen», bemerkte die bekannte Geografin Ellen Churchill Semple im Jahre 1911.
“Where man has remained in the tropics, with few exceptions, he has suffered arrested development,” the prominent geographer Ellen Churchill Semple remarked in 1911.
In den siebziger Jahren entdeckte die Geografin Anne Kirkby, dass indianische Bauern in Oaxaca es nicht der Mühe wert hielten, das Land für eine Milpa zu roden und zu bestellen, wenn sie nicht mindestens neunzig Kilogramm Getreide auf 0,4 Hektar lieferte.
In the 1970s the geographer Anne Kirkby discovered that Indian farmers in Oaxaca considered it not worth their while to clear and plant a milpa unless it could produce more than about two hundred pounds of grain per acre.
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