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Drs. Potts, Gidi, Campbell & Zureick comment in International Perspectives, ‘Niger: Too Little, Too Late’.

July 18, 2011 / bixby / News

“How Niger is going to feed a population growing from 11 million today to 50 million in 2050 in a semi-arid country that may be facing adverse climate change is unclear.” —Lord Adair Turner

Niger—with the world’s fastest growing population, its highest total fertility rate (TFR), a small and diminishing amount of arable land, low annual rainfall, a high level of malnutrition, extremely low levels of education, gross gender inequities and an uncertain future in the face of climate change—is the most extreme example of a catastrophe that is likely to overtake the Sahel. The policies chosen by Niger’s government and the international community to reduce rapid population growth and the speed with which they are implemented are of the utmost importance. In
this comment, we review the problems posed by Niger’s rapid population growth and the policy options proposed to confront it.

Available at: http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3709511.pdf

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