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"There are many factors which affect the balance between population and food supply at a global scale. Strategies for sustainability in agricultural development need to address human and physical issues." WJEC specification |
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Theories and population growth Malthus Just who was Malthus? http://www2.truman.edu/~rgraber/cultev/malthus.html Agricultural intensification Which comes first - population growth or agricultural change? http://www2.truman.edu/~rgraber/cultev/agint.html Food production and population growth A paper by Ester Boserup. http://www.mtp.dk/authors/boserup-e/1996.htm Julian Simon Papers by Simon available as e-articles on the net. http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Colleges/BMGT/.Faculty/JSimon/ The Club of Rome is a global think tank which brings together scientists, economists, businessmen, civil servants, heads of state and former heads of state... "who are convinced that the future of humankind is not determined once and for all and that each human being can contribute to the improvement of our societies." http://www.clubofrome.org/ Overpopulation.com Articles and news stories. http://www.overpopulation.com/index State of the World's Population 2001 UNFPA report. Makes a contribution to the population-environment debate. http://www.unfpa.org/swp/swpmain.htm Population Concern Set up in the 1970s to raise money for family planning programmes in less developed countries. Now works with partner organisations in those countries. http://www.populationconcern.org.uk Worldwatch Institute Online Publisher of State of the World 2002. Useful press releases. http://www.worldwatch.org/
Oxfam is a charity fighting poverty and food insecurity. Oxfam helps poor people by giving money and advice: helping people to help themselves. In this way they grow more food, dig wells for clean water and train health workers. Site has country profiles, pages on development issues and the Cool Planet website for school pupils. Also emergencies page. http://www.oxfam.org.uk Feeding Minds, Fighting Hunger an international classroom for exploring the problems of hunger, malnutrition and food insecurity. Downloadable lessons. http://www.feedingminds.org/default.htm Development Gateway Useful food security page at portal site. http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/130622/ World Food Summit Rome Declaration 1996 http://www.fao.org/wfs/index_en.htm AlertNet A Reuters service which provides global news, communications and logistics services to the international disaster relief community and the public. Anyone can access the public pages, which carry a live newsfeed from Reuters together with articles describing how relief agencies are responding to the latest humanitarian crises. http://www.alertnet.org/ Relief Web lists by natural disasters (including droughts) and countries. Digest of reports and relief efforts. Archival material dating back to 1981, listed chronologically. ReliefWeb is a project of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf Disaster Relief American Red Cross and CNN site. Archived articles date back to 1996. http://www.disasterrelief.org/ Earth Watch keeps an eye on the many different disaster events happening around the world. Clickable map format. http://www.disasterrelief.org/EarthWatch/ MST - Movimento dos trabalhadores rurais Sem Terra The Brazilian Landless Workers Movement is the largest social movement in Latin America. In 1985 hundreds of landless rural Brasilians took over an unused plantation and successfully established a cooperative. Today more than 250,000 families have won land titles to over 15 million acres after MST land takeovers. http://www.mstbrazil.org/ The New Economics Foundation is a radical 'think tank' bringing together ideas, people, resources and influence to challenge business-as-usual. Aims to create practical and enterprising solutions to the social, environmental and economic challenges facing the local, regional, national and global economies. http://www.neweconomics.org BBC Country profiles for Africa http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/country_profiles/default.stm Famine in Africa BBC news features on the history of African famines with links. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/in_depth/africa/2000/famine_in_africa/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/africa/2002/famine_in_africa/ Sub-Saharan Africa Global Information and Early Warning System on food and agriculture (GIEWS) reports on food supply situation and crop prospects. http://www.fao.org/giews/english/eaf/eaftoc.htm
UN Convention to Combat Desertification Knowledge base and regional information. Factsheets. http://www.unccd.int/main.php Information for Africa. http://www.unccd.int/regional/africa/menu.php Development Gateway Click on country gateways tab. Links to databases, statistics and development projects. http://www.developmentgateway.org Africa 2000 For information on population issues, international 'aid' & economic development, and the political history of north-south relations. Research and analysis by journalists from all over the world, as well as information from formerly-classified documents. http://www.africa2000.com/ Africa Online includes statistical information about the economy, demographics, taxation, and import, export information on Kenya, the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwae. Published by Newspread International in Nairobi. http://africaonline.com allAfrica Global Media is a leading provider of African news and information worldwide, through news feeds to institutional and agency clients and through allAfrica.com. Posts more than 500 new stories daily from over 80 African media organizations and from their own reporters. Region and topic listings. Special reports and photo essays. http://allafrica.com/ Play fair for Africa People in Africa face poverty and suffering on a scale which is unimaginable to most of us. To take just one statistic: 300 million Africans live on less than $1 a day. Oxfam reports. http://www.oxfam.org.uk/campaign/africa/index.htm The GM debate: Is GM the way forward? Genetic modification makes a good topic for an in-class debate. To obtain up-to-date material, rather than surfing the whole web and trawling the newspaper archives for articles, it makes good sense to start out from a site which explains the main issues and includes links to the most recent material. If setting out the argument for GM then Monsanto is the place to start off your research. If you want to start constructing a case against GM, then Friends of the Earth is recommended. Of course any 'green' site will have some material on GM, but be wary of 'personal' sites or small organisations which may have a tenuous grasp on reality. National newspapers can also be sensationalist in their approach. (Hard facts can be thin on the ground. Make a note of the sources for the material you use, be aware of the origin of any material you find and the likely bias of the originators.) Monsanto is a US biotech TNC which provides "...integrated, technology-based agricultural solutions for growers and downstream customers in agricultural markets." Monsanto say genetically modified food has the potential to contribute to a better environment and a sustainable, plentiful, and healthy food supply. The site is intended to promote a deeper understanding of food biotechnology by providing visitors with "...access to the full range of thought, opinion, and background information about this important subject." http://www.monsanto.co.uk Friends of the Earth say "...big agri-business is trying to force us to eat genetically modified foods." FOE is campaigining for 'real food' and aims to give 'accurate and timely information' including fully referenced briefings and access to their press releases. "In the race to cut production costs in UK farming, important food safety concerns are being forgotten." Use the search facility to find archived briefings on the GM issues. For the main site http://www.foe.co.uk For the real food campaign http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/real_food/issues/food_safety/ FAO biotech site Biotechnology provides a set of tools that, if appropriately integrated with other technologies, can be applied for the sustainable development of agriculture, fisheries and forestry, as well as the food industry. FAO may provide advice and assistance to countries on this matter. However, final decisions on the use of biotechnology remain a national responsibility. http://www.fao.org/biotech/index.asp?lang=en
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