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PRB in the Field: A Few Ponderings on Field VisitsFriday, December 18th, 2009 Posted in Environment, PRB News | No Comments » by Jason Bremner, program director, Population, Health, and Environment My mind is often flooded with indicators: population size, percent of the population living on less than a dollar per day, landholdings per ... Read more..Are You an Optimist or a Pessimist in Ethiopia?Monday, June 29th, 2009 Posted in Education, Environment, Income/Poverty | 9 Comments » by Charlie Teller, Bixby visiting scholar Teaching an entire semester’s graduate course in three weeks at the end of the academic year seemed a dubious task under normal conditions. But teaching it ... Read more..PRB in the Field: Family Planning Workshops for West African JournalistsWednesday, April 29th, 2009 Posted in PRB News, Reproductive Health | No Comments » by Victoria Ebin, news media coordinator PRB is carrying out three workshops on family planning for West African journalists between January and June of this year. The first workshop, held in ... Read more..PRB in the Field: Women’s Edition Training in Kenya, Day 4Friday, April 24th, 2009 Posted in PRB News, Reproductive Health | No Comments » by Chinyere Fred-Adegbulugbe, senior correspondent, The Punch, Lagos, Nigeria and member of PRB's Women's Edition The Women’s Edition training continued on Thursday with a field to a Marie Stopes centre in ... Read more..PRB in the Field: Women’s Edition Training in Kenya, Day 3 - What is Behind Not Using CondomsWednesday, April 22nd, 2009 Posted in PRB News, Reproductive Health | No Comments » by Ana Alpirez, editor-in-chief of el Periodico de Guatemala, and member of PRB’s Women’s Edition program. Today I met Theresia, a teenage mother of a six-week old baby. She dropped out of school ... Read more..PRB in the Field: Women’s Edition Training in Kenya, Day 2Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 Posted in PRB News, Reproductive Health | No Comments » by Thato Ratsebe, PRB consultant Women’s Edition continued its second day of family planning and reproductive health training in Nairobi, Kenya by visiting the Population Council and Family Health International (FHI), ... Read more..PRB in the Field: Women’s Edition Training in Kenya, Day 1Monday, April 20th, 2009 Posted in PRB News, Reproductive Health | No Comments » by Florence Machio, a Kenyan freelance journalist and PRB consultant There is an African proverb that says "if you want what is underneath, you have to bend." This speaks volumes when ... Read more..Traditional Agro-Forestry Strategies to Address High Population Pressure and the Livelihoods of Youth in Southern EthiopiaFriday, April 17th, 2009 Posted in Environment, PRB News | 3 Comments » by Charlie Teller, Bixby visiting scholar “Wall-to-wall houses along the dirt road, clinging to the steep mountainsides,” is what I, a demography professor at Addis Ababa University, heard from fellow participants ... Read more..PRB in the Field: Population, Health, and Environment in Rwanda, part 2Thursday, March 26th, 2009 Posted in Environment, PRB News | No Comments » by Jason Bremner, program director, Population, Health, and Environment (Read part 1 of this post) The next morning, our group rises early for a long drive to Nyungwe National Park, in the ... Read more..PRB in the Field: Population, Health, and Environment in Rwanda, part 1Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 Posted in Environment, PRB News | No Comments » by Jason Bremner, program director, Population, Health, and Environment Program Sitting on a chartered bus in Rwanda, surrounded by members of the East Africa Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) network, I’m excited ... Read more.. |
