Poverty In The Gray And Moseley Reading

I never noticed how ambiguous my understanding of poverty was, nor have I put together the poverty-environment interaction before I went through the materials for this week. In the Gray and Moseley reading, poverty was defined as the inability to meet basic needs over time. As I was surprised to read about how the sub-Saharan African farmers have responded to population growth through agricultural intensification which led to better environments and less poverty, I realized how deeply rooted the concept of “poverty causing and affecting environmental degradation’ is in my mind.
In the Nwagbara reading, the authors suggested that inequity may result in social crises and upheavals such as the prevalent situation in the Niger-Delta Region of