Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Antoaneta Becker BEIJING, Apr 15, 2010 (IPS) – Adept at navigating through politically sensitive anniversaries, the Chinese government has one more socially volatile date marked in its calendar: this year’s 30th anniversary of its one-child policy. The backers of this policy set by the country’s communist leadership praise [...]
DEVELOPMENT-KENYA: Rapid Population Growth Threatens Development
March 15, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Susan Anyangu-Amu NAIROBI, Mar 15 (IPS) – Margaret Atieno, a 38-year-old mother of six, says she wanted to avoid her last pregnancy. But consistent stock-outs of contraceptive devices at her health care centre in rural Siaya, western Kenya, gave her no choice but to fall pregnant once again, albeit [...]
EGYPT: Population Growth Overtakes Literacy Rise
March 12, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Cam McGrath LUXOR, Mar 12, 2010 (IPS) – Literacy programmes are teaching millions of Egyptians to read, but are struggling to keep up with the country’s high population growth. "Egypt is one of the most challenging countries for any literacy programme," a literacy programme administrator at Catholic relief [...]
CLIMATE CHANGE: The Rising Tide of Environmental Refugees
October 22, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Analysis by Lester R. Brown* WASHINGTON, Oct 22 (IPS) – Our early twenty-first century civilisation is being squeezed between advancing deserts and rising seas. Measured by the biologically productive land area that can support human habitation, the earth is shrinking. Mounting population densities, once generated solely by population growth, [...]
DEVELOPMENT: Plenty On the Plate – Part 2
October 4, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Miren Gutierrez* and Oriana Boselli ROME, Oct 4 (IPS) – "From a current 6.5 billion population, a billion don’t get enough to eat right now. Extrapolate that to 2020, and you begin to recognise why this is not just a moral problem, it is a national security problem [...]
CLIMATE CHANGE: Rising Seas Demand Better Family Planning
September 6, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Julio Godoy BERLIN, Sep 6 (IPS) – A rising population and climate change need to be considered together in an integrated policy, experts demanded at a forum on sexual and reproductive health and development held in Berlin Sep. 2-4. Family planning is not at present being considered in [...]
