Population

Includes a murky past.…

The average age of the population is increasing – people are living longer…

Why tiny Timor Leste is undergoing a baby boom.…

*Vanessa Baird* wonders why the demographers aren’t panicking.…

Suggestions that Africa should reduce its population in order to avert climate disaster are completely wide of the mark…

Nowhere near as religious as its neighbour, Saudi Arabia, nor as bling-obsessed as nearby United Arab Emirates, Qatar has astutely observed the paths other Gulf states have chosen, and then cherry-picked what seems to work best…

Australians are, collectively, some of theworst greenhouse gas emitters in the world…

The increase in global food prices may have temporarily stalled but food is expected to remain at record price levels for the foreseeable future…

The spiraling world food grains crisis has been a long time coming.There have been warnings aplenty, but they didn't really grab theheadlines…

With the Christmas parties and New Year feasting that's featuring in many millions of homes this week, the Radio New Internationalist team wants to get it's teeth into some of the interviews that we've done during 2007 about the food we're finding on our dinner tables: Angus Calder - a company director in search of more efficient agriculture - takes us through the problems that threaten our food supplies…