the accumulated effect of mass production and consumption in advanced industrial countries and as mentioned earlier. It has become obvious that lately, damage tends to occur due to population pressure in developing countries from cultivating the agricultural land which should be left as is for expansion purposes of agricultural and stock farming. This seems to be true in most part, even though the media often tends to exaggerate their reports. It also must be true, that for developing countries, they don't want to listen to what advanced countries advocate. Because they barely started real development and they also want further development to raise their level of living, they are put in a confusion. The people in the developing world think that the demand from the more developed countries to slow down their economic growth in less developed countries, seems to be selfish and not accountable. It is difficult to see how this picture of a latent opposition between North and South can be dissolved.
World population problem, especially to reduce the population growth of developing countries by controlling birth rates, was the highest goal of all in the World Population Conference held in the past. In 1994 Cairo conference, as a trump, the idea of empowerment of women and reproductive health to solve the population problem was heavily advocated and emphasized.
Developing countries have experienced lowering birth rates by aggressively spreading family planning activities with the help of advanced countries. However, it is also true that a women's health and freedom to choose contraceptive devices was somewhat neglected, and simply for the purpose of meeting a national goal, enforcement and violation of human rights have took place in the past. The present policies of spreading family planning was reconsidered for its limits. In the 1994 International Population & Development Conference, they announced that ultimately it is more effective to approach this subject with a holistic view and wider scope rather than just as family planning, even if this seems to be a defour-marking method. That is the notion of what women's empowerment and reproductive health is all about.
