Population & Environment Session

Within a session on “Population Pressure, Resource Use and Environmental Degradation”, I presented recent results from my collaborative work with Wayne Twine (Wits, South Africa) and Laura Patterson (graduate student, CU-Boulder). The work is based at the Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance Site

http://web.wits.ac.za/Academic/Health/PublicHealth/Agincourt/agincourthome.htm

and examines natural resource use as related to food security among AIDS-impacted households. The session’s papers were:

Population dynamics, future food requirements and environmental impacts in sub-Saharan Africa • Barbara Boyle Torrey, Population Reference Bureau (PRB)

HIV/AIDS, food security and the role of the natural environment: evidence from the Agincourt health and demographic surveillance site in rural South Africa • Lori M. Hunter, University of Colorado at Boulder; Laura Patterson, University of Colorado at Boulder; Wayne Twine, University of the Witwatersrand

Environmental degradation, population pressure and health in South India: elite capture or poor information? • Monica Das Gupta, World Bank Group; Vijayendra Rao, World Bank Group; Radu Ban, World Bank Group

Estimating carbon and methane footprints from demographic and health survey data • Shea Rutstein, Macro International Inc.