Global Demography Flashcards
(25 cards)
Often welcome an extra hand to help in crop cultivation, particularly during the planting and harvesting seasons.
Rural Communities
Tend to have families with more children because the success of their “small family business” depend on how many of their child members can be hawking their wares on the streets.
Poorer districts of urban centers
View multiple children and large kinship networks as critical investnments.
Rural families
Couples live on their own or because they move out of the farmlands
Urban Families
People live in countries other than their own
International Migration
argued that overpopulation in the 1970s and the 1980s will bring about global environmental disasters that would, in turn, lead to food shortage and mass starvation.
The Population Bomb
Advocated “contraception and sterilization” as the practical solutions to global economic, social, and political problems.
Foreign Affairs
a potentially disastrous environmental, social, and industrial threat
nightmarish
contend for universal access to reproductive technologies and giving women the right to choose whether to have children or not.
Advocates of population control
The use of _______________ to prevent economic crisi ha sits crisis
Population Control
Disagrees with the advocates of neo-Malthusian theory and accused governments of using population control as “substitute for social justice etc.:.
Betsy Hartman
spurred “technological and institutional innovation” and increased “the supply of human ingenuity”.
Population Growth
created a high-yielding varieties of rice and other cereals and , along with the development of new methods of cultivation, increased yield globally, but more particularly in the developing world.
Green Revolution
argue that if population control and economic development were to reach their goals, women must have control over whether they have children or not and when they will have their progenies, if any.
Reproductive Rights Supporters
Do not condone abortion and limit wives to domestic chores and delivering babies.
Muslim Countries
responsible for the passage and judicial endorsement of a pro-choice law, but conservatives controlling state legislatures have also slowly undermined this law by imposing a restriction on women’s access to abortion
Women’s Movement
argue that abortion is necessary to protect the health of the mother
Pro-choice Advocates
approach the issue of reproductive rights from another angle.
feminists
They are against any form of population control
Feminist
Point out that there is very little evidence that point to overpopulation as the culprit behind poverty and ecological devastation
Feminists
agreed that women should receive family planning counseling on abortion
Country representatives
predict that the world population will stabilize by 2050 to 9 billion
Demographers
warns that in order for countries to mitigate the impact of population growth, food production must rise to 3 billion tons from the current .1 billion
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Recommends that countries increase their investments in agriculture, craft long-term policies aimed at fighting poverty, invest in research and development.
FAO
