Full Coverage: Population

26.10.2009 Population issues continue to arouse controversy. OneWorld UK's new Population Guide aims to reduce the heat and increase the light.

25.10.2009 New UK population projections published this week provoked concerns that food and energy supplies cannot keep up. But it's not just our numbers that are straining the limits.

18.10.2009 Lord Stern told us that preventing deforestation is the most cost effective emissions mitigation strategy. A new report stakes a competing claim for preventing unplanned pregnancies. Optimum Population Trust

27.09.2009 A paper setting out the case that the emissions scenarios which underpin the 2007 IPCC reports are underestimates due to incomplete analysis of population projections. Population Action International

16.09.2009 As people get richer they have smaller families, to the benefit of economic growth. There are plenty of reasons why this pattern may not be repeated in Africa. The Economist

19.08.2009 An international water conference this week wants to ensure that rural and poor people have access to clean water even as climate and population pressures drive the number of those in need beyond 1 billion.
+ Progressio takes “Just Add Water” message to Stockholm’s World Water Week

30.04.2008 Millions of volunteers will visit every household in the country in the coming years to gather information on changing demographics, in a census that will reveal how economic growth has affected its people. India’s population is expected to climb to 1.19 billion in 2011 from 1.13 billion in 2008, say officials.

19.04.2008 NEW YORK, Apr 19 (OneWorld) - The current food crisis causing hunger and starvation for millions of people across the world is not going to end as long as those who dominate the international grain markets remain unwilling to change their behavior, according to experts specializing in international trade and environmental economics.

16.04.2008 The Blue Alert campaign in five Indian coastal cities witnessed hundreds calling for government action to mitigate climate change threats. An earlier report by Greenpeace has highlighted possible displacement of over 125 million people in India and Bangladesh that puts vulnerable coastlines at risk.

04.04.2008 Access to safe water and sanitation can be ensured through effective advocacy and planning by involving grassroots voices, says WaterAid's Advocacy Source Book. The book is a useful resource for monitoring policies and programmes in the context of Millennium Development Goals on water and sanitation.

18.03.2008 A report by Pakistan Institute of Development Economics titled: Pension and Social Security Schemes in Pakistan: Some Policy Options reveals that a significant proportion of elderly working population remain largely unprotected. Efficient deployment of resources and improved governance are critical for effective social security schemes in the country, the report argues.

14.03.2008

06.03.2008 A policymaker who advocates population and gender issues, Dame Billie Antoinette Miller of Barbados, and a New York-based NGO that helps save women’s lives in developing countries have won this year’s United Nations Population Award.

27.02.2008 The latest UN projections say that by the end of 2008, half of the world’s 6.7 billion people will live in cities. All three factors: natural increase, migration and reclassification of rural localities to urban centres will contribute to this increase. Most of the future urbanisation will happen in Asia and Africa.

04.02.2008 With global urban population expecting to rise to over five billion by 2025, there is a need to evolve sustainable urbanisation processes, says architect Dr. Nizamuddin Ahmed. In his vivid description of the city of Dhaka, he speaks of using architecture beyond the purely commercial to create better living environments.

17.01.2008

14.01.2008 Climate change will aggravate almost all existing inequalities of resource use, including access to food and water scarcity, and inordinately affect the poor. It will intensify almost all existing contradictions of India’s complex and violent social structure, says New Delhi-based activist, Nagraj Adve in a comprehensive and insightful essay.

18.12.2007 Indian capital New Delhi is busy transforming itself into a modern city before the Commonwealth Games to be held in 2010. In the process, Delhi’s poor are being uprooted and left alone to fend for themselves.

14.12.2007 Multinational drug companies and research institutions find places like India a prime destination for holding unethical clinical trials due to lax regulations there. It is estimated that 40% of these trials now are taking place in poorer countries of the world.

13.12.2007 Thousands of kilometers of protective embankments and dykes in Bangladesh’s southern coastal belt had been left severely damaged by the cyclone that hit the country in mid-November. People now face a risk of hunger if these protective walls are not repaired.