👉 A malthouse is a hypothetical model used to understand population growth in the context of agriculture. It represents a system where a certain number of individuals (the "malthouse") are allowed to grow and reproduce, leading to an exponential increase in population size over time. The concept was first proposed by Sir Michael Houghton Malthus in 1834, who used it as a tool to analyze the effects of introducing new technologies or policies that could potentially lead to rapid population growth
