Population Growth and Food Security in the Horn of AfricaRabin, Anna
This problem is particularly acute in Africa where an estimated one in four people still lack adequate food to sustain an active and healthy life. In this study, we consider the potential impact of future population growth and climate change on food security in Africa, looking ahead to 2050. ...
variability on food security. All indexed components explained more than 50% of the variance, resulting in a food security eigenvalue of 3.603 with a 0.901 proportion. The findings indicated that population growth and climate variability significantly negatively affect Pakistan’s food security. Further...
Food security is measured using the food production index (FPI), while other variables such as globalization (GLOB), population growth (POP), gross domestic product (GDP) as a measure of economic growth, and inflation are considered. The results of the Quantile Autoregressive Distributed Lag ...
Ntiamoah, E.B., Chandio, A.A., Yeboah, E.N.How do carbon emissions, economic growth, population growth, trade openness and employment influence food security? Recent evidence from the East Africa.
Food Supplies * In 2013, David Attenborough—a famous “broadcaster, writer, and naturalist”—referred to humans as “a plague on the Earth” and an “enormous horde” using up space needed to grow food. He said “either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it ...
Populationgrowthordecline Populationprocesses Populationdistribution Populationstructure Populationcharacteristics ThePastIsaForeign Country 19002000 Worldpopulation(billions)1.66.1 U.S.population(millions)76281 U.S.percentofworldtotal4.8%4.6% Lifeexpectancy4777 ...
The trend is not confined to the United States, instead playing out to varying degrees around the world. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “Every country in the world is experiencing growth in both the size and the proportion of older persons in the population.” ...
Today, the knowledge economy has become the main mode of economic growth, and education is directly related to whether a person can become a useful person in society and related to the progress of a countrys science and technology and economic growth. Nine year compulsory education is one of ...
Natural increase, rather than immigration, has accounted for most of Lithuania’spopulation growthin the early 21st century. The highbirth ratedistinguishes Lithuania from its Baltic neighbours, which have struggled to offset the aging of their populations. The comparatively high level of ethnichomogenei...