Ethiopian Farmers Talk about Population Pressure
Thanks to Kathleen Mogelgaard, Senior Program Manager for Population and Climate Change at Population Action International for this article from PAI’s blog.
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“We farmers don’t have access to family planning and we are moving more and more into poverty.”
As the world focuses on the outcomes of the meeting on climate change that just concluded in Poznan, Poland, I am sitting in a workshop in Nazret, Ethiopia, listening to a panel of farmers talking about the effects of climate change on their lives – less rain, lower crop yields, malaria, no milk for their children. The farmers, from Amhara Region in the Rift Valley, talked about population pressure. They are acutely aware that farm sizes shrink with each generation and speak eloquently of the need for access to family planning so they can have fewer children. Rural Ethiopians currently have an average of six children.
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http://www.populationaction.org/blog/2008/12
February 14th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
…”They are acutely aware that farm sizes shrink with each generation and speak eloquently of the need for access to family planning so they can have fewer children…”
great post! thanks very much for sharing!