The average fertility rate is now 4 children per family. He says this reduction could potentially be achieved by meeting all of the world's unmet demand for family planning services, closing the gender gap in education, and improving women's status in the family and workplace. It's in the interest of the agricultural development community to support family planning and social programs because these programs will make their job of feeding the world easier. By the same token, it's in the interest of the population community for people to be well fed, healthy, and able to make choices about their own lives. The only reasonable alternative is the first, and the time to begin was yesterday.
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