DANCEST 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Soil Fertility, Food Security, Population Momentum
Document Summary
Reduction of poverty, and maternal and child mortality; empowerment of women by lightening the burden of excessive childbearing; enhancement of environmental suitability by stabilizing population. Little encouragement and insufficient funds from international and bilateral donors. National family-planning programs effective in reducing fertility. High fertility and rapid population growth bigger threat than hiv/aids. Effective programs: high-level political commitment, broad coalition of support from elite groups, adequate funding, legitimization of idea of smaller families and modern contraceptives through mass media, medical facilities, social marketing. No contradiction between respect for reproductive rights and strong advocacy for smaller families and mass adoption of effective contraceptive methods. Programs response to large improvements in child survival, rapid population growth, increases in illegal unsafe abortions. Enhance prospects for socioeconomic development by reducing population growth. Promotion dropped: unlinking family planning from economic, new priorities like hiv/aids, population ageing international migration.
