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Family Planning and Subsistence Agriculture Key to Food Security

Papua New Guinea is a natural habitat for diverse food crops and wild plants. Credit: Catherine Wilson/IPSBy Catherine WilsonPORT MORESBY, Jun 6 2012 (IPS)Papua New Guinea’s high fertility rate is...

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OP-ED: Latin America Lags on Reproductive Rights

Indigenous women hauling water in Chiapas, Mexico. Credit: Mauricio Ramos/IPSBy Purnima ManeWASHINGTON, Aug 6 2013 (IPS)In the last decade, several countries in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC)...

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Decline Before Fall of Berlin Wall

Joseph Chamie is former director of the United Nations Population Division and Barry Mirkin is former chief of the Population Policy Section of the United Nations Population Division.By Joseph Chamie...

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Humanity’s Future: Below Replacement Fertility?

A mother and her three children, part of the indigenous Hmong group, in Sin Chai, northwestern Viet Nam. The general trend in world fertility rates shows they are in decline - due to a combination of...

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Mega-Cities, Mortality and Migration

The world's population reached 7 billion on Oct. 31, 2011. Pictured near an entrance to UN Headquarters is a banner for a global campaign by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) to build awareness of the...

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Opinion: Demography and Destiny

Joseph Chamie is an independent consulting demographer and a former director of the United Nations Population Division.By Joseph ChamieNEW YORK, Oct 20 2015 (IPS)The demographic revolutions the world...

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