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  • Men, Listen Up

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  • ‘The Businessman Panicked’

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  • Call for Entries for the Population Institute’s 33rd Annual Global Media Awards

    Updated: 2012-08-31 14:08:46
    Jennie Wetter, Director of Public Policy at the Population Institute, sent the following announcement about the 33rd annual Global Media Awards. Please nominate anybody you feel is deserving using the outlined criteria. Pictured below are Bill Ryerson and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and UNPFA Executive Director, Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin at the 32nd annual Global [...]

  • Study: World Population Increase Could Force Us to be Vegetarians by 2050

    Updated: 2012-08-30 14:14:20
    The following blog  post appeared in the the iconic U.S. magazine, Field and Stream. The post is related to a study by the Stockholm International Water Institute. This study has created a wave of headlines in recent weeks about humanity needing to “go vegetarian” by 2050 due to exploding population growth and dwindling food resources. [...]

  • Greetings from Nigeria

    Updated: 2012-08-29 14:17:11
    Bill Ryerson submitted this blog entry from Abuja: “Greetings from Nigeria, where Population Media Center is seeking support for its third radio drama program.  Nigeria has one of the highest birth rates in the world, and only 10% of married women use modern contraceptives.  Of the 90% non-users, 55% say they never intend to use [...]

  • PMC’s Population News Digest

    Updated: 2012-08-28 14:15:11
    Every Tuesday, PMC sends out a global round-up of all the population related news-stories, opinion articles and quality blog posts that we have collected during the previous week. The PMC Population News Digest is a good tool for people who want an overview of population politics, policies and debates from all around the world. We [...]

  • Entering a long-term, politically dangerous food crisis

    Updated: 2012-08-28 14:11:32
    Below is direct link to Jeremy Grantham’s GMO quarter 2 newsletter. This is the work that Paul B. Farrell referred to in the PMC blog post of August 18th. Pasted below is a portion of the introductory summary below. http://www.gmo.com/websitecontent/GMOQ2Letter.pdf Summary of the Summary We are five years into a severe global food crisis that [...]

  • “Saving the Planet Gets Personal: Laura Turner Seydel”

    Updated: 2012-08-27 01:51:32
    Jane Delson, corporate communications officer at the Dancing Star Foundation, recently sent an announcement of the following interview conducted by Michael Tobias and published on the Forbes.com website. Tobias interviewed Laura Turner Seydel, daughter of environmentalist/media mogul Ted Turner. The conversation touches on a wide-variety of population, environmental and biodiversity-sensitive issues. Forbes “Green Conversation” with [...]

  • Nigeria: Cellphones reduce maternal mortality by 30 percent

    Updated: 2012-08-27 01:44:42
    Below is an interesting story on the use of cell-phone technology to reduce maternal mortality in Nigeria. The phones were deployed to enable communication between the nursing or expectant mothers with their health service providers. It is likely that cell-phone enabled health interventions will become more and more common in the world as the future [...]

  • Fighting for contraceptive rights, abroad and at home

    Updated: 2012-08-27 01:41:11
    Jane Roberts, co-founder of 34 Million Friends of UNFPA, did an early August radio interview on the Worldview program of WBEZ 91.5 in Chicago. Jane is celebrating the 10th anniversary of 34 Million Friends — founded on July 22nd, 2002 . Fighting for contraceptive rights, abroad and at home August 2, 2012 By: Worldview You [...]

  • Bihar launches population stabilisation initiative

    Updated: 2012-08-27 01:37:45
    The following story reports on a government initiative in Bihar (a state of India) aiming at population stabilization, with the education and training of adolescents on reproductive health and family planning as the modus operandi. Bihar launches population stabilisation initiative See: http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Patna/Bihar-launches-population-stabilisation-initiative/Article1-917553.aspx The Bihar government has launched a major health initiative to stabilise population and [...]

  • Afghanistan’s population increasing rapidly

    Updated: 2012-08-27 01:35:11
    The following story reports on rapid population growth in Afghanistan, said to be roughly 500,000 per year. Of special note, the story indicates that 90% of Afghan families are aware of methods for birth control but only 20% apply those methods. The reasons most families do not adhere to the suggested methods mainly have to [...]

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