| People - Population |
| Population and the current world food situation |
| The document Current World Food Situation, prepared for FAO's 116th Council, analyses the relationship between population growth and food production. Agricultural production has lagged behind population growth in nearly half of the countries considered. Many other countries experienced a negative association of high population growth with stagnating or even declining production. This note is a sum... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/wpdirect/wpan0036.htm |
| French: http://www.fao.org/sd/FRdirect/WPan0037.htm |
| Spanish: http://www.fao.org/sd/SPdirect/WPan0038.htm |
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| People - Population |
| Population change-natural resources-environment linkages in East and Central Africa |
| This note (summarising a paper written for the UNFPA Country Support Team for East and Central Africa) is mainly based on [a] national reports on the state of the environment presented at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 1992; and [b] the Global Assessment of Soil Degradation. It examines to what extent the countries identified population dynamics as a factor in envi... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/wpdirect/WPan0021.htm |
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| People - Population |
| Gender, land and fertility - Women's access to land and security of tenure |
| An important element in the land-fertility/mortality interface is gender. When security of tenure is menaced, women often are among the first groups to lose use rights. Institutional arrangements and socio-economic and socio-cultural norms can contribute differently to the experiences of men and women in relation to land and fertility. Whilst the issue concerns all rural households, it is also imp... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/wpdirect/wpan0001.htm |
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| People - Population |
| Expert Group Meeting on Food Production and Population Growth |
| The meeting on Food Production and Population Growth, held in Rome in 1996 and organised by FAO and UNFPA, discussed and elaborated issues raised in two background papers on "Food Requirements and Population Growth" and "Population Pressure and the Food Supply System in the Developing World". It also proposed amendments to a policy statement "Towards Universal Food Security" to strengthen its trea... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/wpdirect/wpre0019.htm |
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