The “10 countries ranked most vulnerable”: in 2000 they contained about 320 million, lots of them vulnerable.
In 2011, they hold about 400 million, even more vulnerable.

Whether they want it or not (and a great many do not), the women in these countries have about 6 or eight babies as a normal course of events; that is, if they do not die in childbirth, suffer fistula from pregnancies at too early an age, and so-on. Counting the good and the bad outcomes for the mothers, their total fertility rate is about 4.5 children for each and every female.

In spite of disease, malnutrition, war, lack of access to safe medical and living conditions - the rate of natural increase for these countries still averages about 2.2 per cent. If they can keep that up, then their populations will double in about a generation - another 400 million to feed and educate.

It might help them a bit (actually a lot) if the folk developing “Strategy development, campaign design, training and capacity building” factored this fundamental impediment into their concepts instead of turning a blind eye to it. Australia is going backwards in regard to economic and social issues, health, education, etc., and that is in spite of each woman having less than two children with the fostering and support they need for the period from birth to age of employment.

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=12774#220649

Yabby, WMD, a women's movement delegation of femiNAZIS, fauxMANistas & butch dyke "sistas in da hood" is the last thing Africa needs now. Teaching girls how to hate themselves as well as the men who love them, destroying the family, tribe, religion, world is the last thing those people need. Meddling from more loony left, social engineers, god save them from that.

How about educating the boys & men about how difficult/expensive it is to raise, pay for a small tribe of their own children, give them condoms for free by the carton. Give them education in low technology infrastructure they can build for themselves like a stand alone composting toilet that does not need an entire sewerage system.

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=12774#220662

Banjo, also correct.

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=12774#220665

Tectonic Shift, good to hear mate, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/at-last-a-thorough-probe-into-what-drives-the-greens-machine/story-fn59niix-1226095160826 have you read this book? i can thoroughly recomend it Bob Brown's really RED communazi party is the worst in Australian history.

Australian farmers lead the world in sustainable farming practices & getting more food per hectare, litre of water, kilo of fertiliser, etc. And of course it was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_Sanders who saved the Franklin River, not the closet communist econazi.

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=12774#220681

donkeygod, i hear you, but China & other modernising Asian nations are the only that ones fitting your profile.

South America, catholic, breeding like flies, India different religions same problem, Africa, Middle East, other Muslim nations all breeding like flies. Apart from 1st world, modernised nations, all breeding way too fast. Don't forget Polynesia either, they keep arriving here because their literally is no room left on their islands, which are NOT sinking beneath the waves, just overcrowded.

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=12774#220685

colinsett, true but our problems have the opposite cause, too few of our own children, filling jobs with migrants is infinately more expensive than breeding, training our own children.

Think on this everybody, between 1945 & 1965 our birth rate was MUCH higher & we took a tsunami of British & European migrants as well. Despite all this population growth our governments built infrastructure, trained enough apprentices at TAFE, professionals at UNI, etc.

There will not be as much death by starvation as many here imagine.
In times of food shortage malnutrition reduces fertility.
It also takes many young children.

Donkey god:
Industrial scale agriculture is ending.
Yabby referred to the increasing cost of fertiliser, and that is the key.
We are running short of superphosphate, the main source now is in Morocco.
Other fertilisers are made from oil and natural gas.
At the current rate at which NG is to be exported we will not have
enough for our own use.
The cost and availability of fuel will end industrial agriculture and
the long distance transport of agricultural products.
We are soon to revert to the type of agriculture that we practised
in the 18th & 19th centuries.
The African woman farmer will have a lot to teach us.

All these schemes of helping those poorer countries will come to nought.
We have already entered the era of zero growth and we no longer have
the ability to fund projects such as those proposed.
In case you have not noticed both the US and Europe have run out of
money and are now going into hock to China.
Why is it so ?
Simple really, the high cost of energy has eaten all their GDP.
Guess what you repay debt and interest with ?