Environment
Curb the Population Myth
IPN Opinion article
President Obama has ended the ban on federal funds imposed by the Bush Administration on groups that promote or perform abortions abroad and on the United Nations Population Fund. He must take this opportunity to put pressure on the UNFPA to concentrate on the health of women and babies ó and to stop wasting money assaulting the poor with wrongheaded population-control schemes.
What population apocalypse is affecting us now?
IPN Opinion article
World Population Day: The problem is not population, but poverty.
Is water a human right?
IPN Opinion article
Water issues around the world are misrepresented by popular books and documentaries.
Idle Speculation on Hunger
IPN Opinion article
Cracking down on speculation might make politicians feel good but the evidence shows that it had nothing to do with the food crisis: the real cause was bad policies.
Feed the World: The Challenge of Agricultural Development
Friday, April 17, 2009
This paper focuses on food, first surveying long-term trends in global demand and supply to put recent price changes into perspective. It evaluates various factors which underpin the high prices experienced in 2007 and 2008, including the conversion of crops into liquid fuels (“biofuels”). The paper concludes with lessons we should have learned recently about food scarcity and its alleviation
Can Uganda learn from Chile's water revolution?
IPN Opinion article
About 95% of the world's water and sanitation is managed by government yet riots and demonstrations in Istanbul at the World Water Forum in late March vilified private management, as if it were a menace. It's time for a measured look at a real example of successful private water rights and management.
Enough, population doom merchants
IPN News coverage
Dominic Lawson analyses the advocates of population control
