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CAUTION: The following links
and accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the
situation in Niger in the early years of the 21st Century. Some of
these links may lead to websites that present allegations that are
unsubstantiated, misleading or even false. No attempt has been
made to validate their authenticity or to verify their content. HOW TO USE THIS WEBPAGE Students If you are looking
for material to use in a term-paper, you are advised to scan the postings on this
page and others to see which aspects of poverty are of particular interest to
you. You might be interested in
exploring the relationship between distribution of labor and per-capita GDP,
for example. Perhaps your paper could
focus on life expectancy or infant mortality.
Other factors of interest might be unemployment, literacy, access to
basic services, etc. On the other
hand, you might choose to include some of the possible outgrowths of poverty
such as Human Trafficking,
Street Children,
or even Prostitution. There is a lot to the subject of
Poverty. Scan other countries as well
as this one. Draw comparisons between
activity in adjacent countries and/or regions. Meanwhile, check out some of the Term-Paper resources
that are available on-line. Teachers Check out some of
the Resources
for Teachers attached to this website. *** Extreme Weather *** More than 29
million people in Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Djibouti, Mauritania, and Niger
continue to face unrelenting drought conditions. These prolonged dry spells
pose significant challenges to agriculture, water availability, and food
security. – adapted from Microsoft BING Copilot *** ARCHIVES *** The World Factbook - Niger U.S. Central Intelligence Agency CIA www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/ng.html [accessed 16
November 2020] World Factbook
website has moved to ---> www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/niger/ [accessed 6 January 2021] ECONOMIC OVERVIEW - centers on
subsistence crops, livestock, and some of the world's largest uranium
deposits; agriculture contributes about 40% of GDP and provides livelihood for over 80% of
the population; issues include food insecurity, lack of industry, high
population growth, a weak educational
sector, and few prospects for work outside of subsistence farming and herding GDP - per capita (PPP): $1,200 (2017 est.) Labor force - by
occupation: agriculture: 79.2% industry: 3.3% services: 17.5% (2012 est.) Unemployment rate: 0.3% (2017 est.) Population below
poverty line: 45.4% (2014 est.) Maternal mortality
rate: 509 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.) Infant mortality
rate: total: 67.7 deaths/1,000 live births Life expectancy at
birth: total population: 59.3 years Drinking water
source: improved: total: 65.2% of population Physicians
density: 0.04 physicians/1,000 population (2016) Sanitation facility
access: improved: total: 23.3% of population Electricity access:
electrification - total population: 16.2%
(2016) The
Borgen Project - Niger borgenproject.org/category/niger/ [accessed 23 February 2021] The Borgen Project works with U.S. leaders to utilize the
United States’ platform behind efforts toward improving living conditions for
the world’s poor. It is an innovative,
national campaign that is working to make poverty a focus of U.S. foreign
policy. It believes that leaders of
the most powerful nation on earth should be doing more to address global
poverty. From ending segregation to providing women with the right to vote,
nearly every wrong ever righted in history was achieved through advocacy. The
Borgen Project addresses the big picture, operating
at the political level advancing policies and programs that improve living
conditions for those living on less than $1 per day. ~
Poverty And Income Diversification — The Escape borgenproject.org/poverty-and-income-diversification-the-escape/ ~
Combating Child Marriage In Niger borgenproject.org/combatting-child-marriage-in-niger/ ~
How Agriculture Grants Are Empowering Women In Niger borgenproject.org/empowering-women-in-niger/ ~
What You Need To Know About Healthcare In Niger borgenproject.org/what-you-need-to-know-about-healthcare-in-niger/ Conflict, climate change, and COVID-19 drive extreme hunger Oxfam, 9 July 2021 www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/stories/conflict-climate-change-and-covid-19-drive-extreme-hunger/ [accessed 19 July 2021] The
effects of conflict, COVID-19, and climate change have intensified the global
hunger crisis. WEST
AFRICAN SAHEL - DRIVERS OF HUNGER: CONFLICT -- The region encompassing
Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, and Senegal has seen a
67 percent increase in hunger since last year. Continued violence has forced
5.3 million people to flee their homes. Insecurity has cut off farmers from
their agriculture. Last year, along with the economic impact of COVID-19, the
climate crisis disrupted the agricultural season, limiting stocks and
people’s livelihoods. The Sahel struggles with terror, poverty and climate change The Arab Weekly, 18 March 2021 thearabweekly.com/sahel-struggles-terror-poverty-and-climate-change [accessed 18 March 2021] Internal
displacement had increased 20-fold in less than two years while the number of
families facing hunger has tripled. The
United Nations warned in November of a heightened risk of famine in Burkina
Faso, along with northeastern Nigeria and South Sudan and also of a high
hunger risk in both Mali and Niger. Problems
have been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Action
Against Hunger - Niger www.actionagainsthunger.org/countries/africa/niger [accessed 21 March 2021] A
landlocked nation with little arable land for farming, Niger ranks among the
world’s poorest countries, with subsistence agriculture and livestock
accounting for 80 percent of Niger’s livelihoods. But agriculture in Niger is
besieged by significant challenges, such as routine climate shocks (droughts
and floods), poor soil quality, underdeveloped markets in seeds, fertilizers
and other productive inputs, not to mention poor pasture lands for grazing
animals. With
about 60% of Nigeriens living below the poverty line, household food
consumption is a serious seasonal concern, as rampant food insecurity and
hunger are chronic for significant swaths of Niger’s population. As a result,
malnutrition rates are steep in Niger, affecting some 40% of all Nigerien
children, and rates of deadly acute malnutrition at an alarming 10%. The
World Bank in Niger www.worldbank.org/en/country/niger/overview [accessed 21 April 2021] The World
Bank supports projects in water, rural development, HIV/AIDS, education,
health, natural disaster management, and emergency food security. Looking back a few years … Advameg, Inc., Encyclopedia of the Nations www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Africa/Niger-ECONOMY.html [accessed 8 December 2020] Niger
is an arid, landlocked country with much of its territory forming a portion
of the Sahara. Most of its people live in a marginally productive and highly
drought-prone band of arable land along Niger's southern border with Nigeria. Subsistence
agriculture prevails in the less than 3% of the country that is under cultivation.
Agriculture and livestock production employed an estimated 95% of the labor
force. All
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