Talk:Nazareno Strampelli

High yield
This term is intrinsically unclear. Faster growth rate? Better pest and blight resistance? More efficient harvest with less loss (e.g. simultaneous maturity, consistency of size)? More rapid growth? Ability to support denser planting levels? Better frost resistance, hence longer growing season?

This work is a fairly important historical juncture. It sure wouldn't hurt to document which of these axes were most effectively exploited in the early going. &mdash; MaxEnt 19:52, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

Pedanticism
I got a bit pedantic in the lead, because a 50% improvement in crop intensity does not long remain apace with the human population bomb. The metaphor of self-sufficiency tends to tap into a Bildungsroman presumption of once self-sufficient, forever self-sufficient, whereas in this connection, it should lean far more heavily upon The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature as a forever-breathless sprint (next rest stop, if all goes well: 2050). &mdash; MaxEnt 20:01, 14 November 2017 (UTC)


 * The criteria of "self-sufficiency" here is even more strange if you're not thinking of political developments in the late 1930s (or perhaps the North American dust bowl), because otherwise, to an economist who presumes a trade-intensive world, self-sufficiency in any single commodity is an arbitrary benchmark. These unstated contextual considerations certainly do factor into the regard received in one's homeland, though not so much from a scientific or economic perspective, except when dealing with the misfortune of interesting times. &mdash; MaxEnt 20:12, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

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