Algerian land produced ever-diminishing returns while the Muslim population trebled

Evidence

Since 1830 the area of cultivable land owned by Muslims had almost doubled; but the population trebled. In 1956 Germaine Tillion reckoned that the country could feed no more than “between two and three million”; and there were then almost nine million Muslims alone. By 1954 some twenty-five per cent of all the farming land was reputedly owned by only two per cent of the total agricultural population. (Of the country’s total wealth at that date, ninety per cent was accounted as held in the hands of ten per cent of the inhabitants.) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 183 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Post-independence Algeria’s economic planning badly damaged its agriculture and trade.; A growing Muslim population outpaced land gains, shrinking per-capita holdings; Muslim population growth outpaced land gains, creating extreme inequality — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 183 (+6 more)

Related

• A growing Muslim population outpaced land gains, shrinking per-capita holdings (similarity 0.92)
• Muslim population growth outpaced land gains, creating extreme inequality (similarity 0.91)
• French medical progress caused an Algerian population explosion that nullified economic reforms (similarity 0.85)
• Algerian poverty and unemployment fuelled recruits for the Islamicist revolt (similarity 0.85)
• A French official survey documented mass unemployment and illiteracy among Algerian Muslims (similarity 0.85)
• Roughly three million Algerian Muslims faced serious underemployment by 1955 (similarity 0.85)
• Demographic pressure rather than French presence produced Algerian misery (similarity 0.84)
• The Constantine Plan produced measurable Algerian economic and educational gains. (similarity 0.84)
• Post-independence Algeria’s economic planning badly damaged its agriculture and trade. (similarity 0.83)
• Overpopulation provides a fertile breeding ground for Fundamentalism in Algeria (similarity 0.83)
• The Constantine Plan made unprecedented economic investment in Algeria (similarity 0.81)
• Algerian Muslims earned roughly one-thirtieth of European earnings yet paid proportionally heavier taxes. (similarity 0.81)
• Individual land grants made Muslim recipients assassination targets and backfired (similarity 0.79)
• France made substantial material and infrastructural improvements in Algeria (similarity 0.79)
• The Constantine Plan’s achievements fell far short of its targets. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• A growing Muslim population outpaced land gains, shrinking per-capita holdings #corroborates (0.90)
• Muslim population growth outpaced land gains, creating extreme inequality #expands (0.80) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 183
• French medical progress caused an Algerian population explosion that nullified economic reforms #expands (0.75)
• Demographic pressure rather than French presence produced Algerian misery #expands (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 346
• Algerian poverty and unemployment fuelled recruits for the Islamicist revolt #expands (0.55) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 43
• Overpopulation provides a fertile breeding ground for Fundamentalism in Algeria #expands (0.50) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1696