| People - Population |
| Population and deforestation |
| This document presents facts and hypotheses about how population growth and migration are linked with forest change, then examines what the assessment of those linkages suggests regarding ways to improve forestry, population or development policies. It notes that the role of population dynamics in a local setting may vary from decisive to negligible. Finally, suggestions are presented regarding po... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/wpdirect/WPan0050.htm |
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| People - Population |
| Gender and development: Why do we still have problems in population programmes after all these years? |
| The note looks at some of the current difficulties to address gender in development interventions and policy formulation and suggests a few operational lines of action. The task ahead is not a simple one, but it is nonetheless not insurmountable: collective work is needed at both conceptual and operational levels, integrated across sectors and institutions. As this effort proceeds, the present wor... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/wpdirect/WPan0047.htm |
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| People - Population |
| 6,000,000,000 and counting: Food security and agriculture in a demographically changing world |
| On 12 October 1999, the Day of the Six Billion was marked. The international community must be aware that food, agricultural and rural development challenges require understanding of changes in the population set-up, and of how agricultural demand, production, trade and natural resources management will be affected by those changes. This note looks into population growth, migration, ageing, gender... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/wpdirect/wpan0040.htm |
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| People - Population |
| Population dimensions of world fishery issues |
| Fish and fishery products are important for the food security of many coastal populations but often marine and freshwater resources are on the decline and this is a source of growing economic and social problems. The document highlights the importance of identifying vulnerable population groups and of collecting information on demographic and social characteristics of fishing communities and their... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/wpdirect/wpan0009.htm |
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| People - Population |
| Culture, agriculture and rural development: A view from FAO's Population Programme Service |
| FAO's approach to culture and development takes into account cultural factors in order to achieve sustainable rural development and food security. This note illustrates the latter with two examples of FAO's approach to cultural issues and then describes one of the instruments it uses to understand cultural factors and their complex relation with agriculture and development, namely socio-cultural r... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/wpdirect/wpre0132.htm |
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| People - Population |
| Population and gender in rural societies from the perspective of FAO's Population Programme |
| Population and gender issues are intrinsically linked to environmental sustainability and food security. An understanding of these linkages is key to planning for sustainable development. The purpose of this note is to clarify how a population and gender perspective may contribute to a better understanding of rural development and food security, and how this perspective is being integrated by FAO'... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/wpdirect/wpre0128.htm |
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| People - Population |
| Male involvement in reproductive health: Incorporating gender throughout the life cycle |
| This page presents the Preface, Table of contents and Introduction of the first of a series of Occasional Inter-Agency TSS System papers. The full paper looks into the socio-cultural aspects that shape male perspectives, based on the socially embedded gender relations in the different stages of the life cycle, and aims to use this knowledge to suggest ways to increase men's involvement in reproduc... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/wpdirect/wpre0077.htm |
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| People - Population |
| Population change-natural resources-environment linkages in Central And South Asia |
| This note (summarising a paper written for the UNFPA Country Support Team for Central and South Asia) 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 envir... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/wpdirect/wpan0011.htm |
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| People - Population |
| Population characteristics and change in fishing communities and sustainable exploitation of fisheries resources |
| The population growth of fishing communities is sometimes said to contribute to the overexploitation of fisheries resources and to the degradation of the coastal environment. However, little attention is paid to the socio-demographic characteristics of fishing communities and their changes. This note reports on an interregional workshop held in 1997 to compare the outcomes of country studies, orie... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/wpdirect/wpre0027.htm |
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| People - Population |
| Linkages between population, natural resources and environment in China, Philippines, Indonesia and Viet Nam |
| This note - drawing on a paper by the same author on population and environment in Southeast Asia - presents brief overviews of the major environmental and natural resource management problems in four countries, emphasizing where appropriate the linkages between resource degradation or depletion, on the one hand, and population growth on the other hand. |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/wpdirect/wpan0004.htm |
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