Population

Farm community abandons old practice

A Nepalese community that grows vegetables using traditional techniques is now succumbing to population pressures and rapid urbanisation.

Publication Date:

30/01/1994

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Agriculture, Urbanisation, Population, Nepal

Environment

Blinded by figures

By 2010, the world's population will have gone up to 6 billion. But at the recent New York meeting on population and development, counting heads took precedence over critical issues such as women's nutrition and education

Publication Date:

30/07/1993

Author(s): Sumanta Pal

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

2

Issue:

19930731

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment, Women, Family Planning, Education, UN Fund For Population Activities (UNFPA), Sustainable Development, Population

Environment

A tangram for Clinton

In order to reinforce its pro abortion stand, the new US administration has announced its intention of resuming funding to the UNFPA. The hitch: UNFPA supports China's rigorous population control programme, which has been decried internationally as infrin

Publication Date:

30/07/1993

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

2

Issue:

19930731

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment, Women, Family Planning, Education, UN Fund For Population Activities (UNFPA), Sustainable Development, Population

Environment

People are not the planet's pollutants

The consumerist tendency of our society has resulted in the branding of population explosion as the villain in a world that has place for everyone's need but no one's greed.

Publication Date:

30/05/1993

Author(s): K C Sahu

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

2

Issue:

19930531

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment, Contraception, Population