Poverty
-
June 6th 2013
High Level Panel ignores population (press release)
Development with sustainability can only be achieved through either limiting per capita resource consumption in developed countries or a falling global population or both. The Secretary-General's High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons... -
March 19th 2013 | Tags: Ecosystems and biodiversity, Poverty
Pope has a hope
New Pope says: “I would like to ask all those who have positions of responsibility in economic, political and social life, and all men and women of goodwill: Let... -
January 22nd 2013
IDC forgets people (press release)
Population Matters welcomes the International Development Committee’s call for environmental sustainability to be incorporated in the new development goals. In a world of climate change, collapsing biodiversity and approaching resource... -
November 16th 2012
The Great Africa Land Grab: Comment
Phil Bloomer, Director of Campaigns and Policy at Oxfam GB, writes in The Ecologist. Land grabbing has fast become a major threat to poor communities in Africa, Asia and South America. Poverty-stricken... -
November 5th 2012 | Tags: Family planning and reproductive health, Population info and analysis, Poverty, Resources
Population Matters consults on SDGs
We have developed some of the sustainable development goals that we would like to see. They are listed here. If you have any comments, write to us at enquiries@populationmatters.org -
October 13th 2012
Food-free days now part of life for some
World grain prices have risen so high that families in poorer countries are being forced to schedule 'food-free days' each week, according to one of the leading experts on global... -
October 12th 2012
US corn biofuel costs poor nations $6.6bn
Growing use of US-produced corn for biofuel has added $6.6 billion to the food import bills of developing countries over the past six years, highlighting the need to rethink energy... -
September 10th 2012
Philippines: EU visitors support RH bill
Pregnant teenage girls. Young children being left to fend for themselves. Couples with 16 kids struggling to raise their families. These were some of the images that greeted European legislators... -
August 27th 2012
Food shortages could lead to vegetarian diet
Leading water scientists have issued one of the sternest warnings yet about global food supplies, saying that the world's population may have to switch almost completely to a vegetarian diet... -
August 17th 2012
Overpopulation is everyone’s problem
At one point, the prevailing wisdom was that nations needed robust birthrates to protect their economic welfare, and that if only we could produce food more efficiently, feeding the Earth's...
