Population Stabilization

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Population Stabilization

• Proposals

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Cultures and Family Planning

• In many cultures, men are the major decision
  makers concerning health issues in the household.
  At the same time, reproductive health programs
  and services have traditionally served women and
  restricted mens participation.
• A program that included men, might possibly be
  more accepted.
• The population Council is undertaking studies to
  understand the consequence and challenges of
  enhancing the role of me in different aspects of
  reproductive health.

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Population Councils EffortsFamily Planning

• Gender, Family, and Development Program
  highlights the social determinants of
  reproductive and sexual health.
• This program gives priority to fostering and
  documenting programs that empower women and girls
  and realign gender roles

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Family Planning Policy--Proposal

• With population stabilization having an integral
  role in GHG emissions, we agree to implement
  (x-amount) programs emphasizing delayed
  reproduction (wait later in life), spreading your
  children farther apart, and have fewer children
  overall. Later, Longer, Fewer.
• Programs should involve education and expansion
  of rural health services, and also involve the
  establishment of national and provincial targets
  for births.

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Agriculture

• Land usage-38 world wide
• Water withdraws-66 world wide
• Water consumption-85 world wide
• Large contributor to habitat loss and
  fragmentation that threaten worlds forest,
  biodiversity, terrestrial carbon sinks and stores
• Oxygen depletion, pesticide, fertilizer runoff,
  and erosion threaten countless species

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Modern Farming

• Feeding the world-no silent springs
• Using technology and yields from 1961 it would
  require a doubling of the land to produce enough
  food for the population in 1998
• 8.5 billion acres of potential cropland (world
  wide) 45 of which is forested and another 12 is
  protected
• Agriculture technology has reduced starvation and
  hunger and helped reduce maternal and infant
  mortality rates

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Higher yields for Undeveloped Countries

• Genetic Engineering (Biotechnology)
• Transportation and Storage (Infrastructure)
• Irrigation

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Proposal

• Exchange of agricultural technology between
  countries
• Set limits on yeilds and type of crop grown
• Possible support from wealthier nations for
  better infrastructure in exchange for that
  nations carbon recipts
• Redefinition of land and water rights globally
  that will benefit each country