An update on China's one child policy

The one child policy has been around for over 30 years. Read the following article to see the latest on the situation.

China's one-child policy means many benefits for parents – if they follow the rules http://gu.com/p/32nk6

Can renewable energy help Lesotho?

Lesotho is one of the poorest countries in the world. They are going to spend £9bn on a huge renewable energy scheme that they hope will hep lift them out of povert. Follow the link to read more.

Lesotho to harness wind and water in huge green energy project http://gu.com/p/332mm

A great website about Food Security

All Year 13's studying Life on the Margins (unit 4) should make sure that they look at and bookmark The Guardian's section on Food Security - an absolutely fantastic site with lots of very recent stories.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/food-security

Kenilworth Geography department on Twitter

In lots of parents evenings teachers tell students and parents that a key way of doing well in Georaphy is to keep up to date with current affairs and news. That is partly why this blog exists. However, I only post up a small percentage of relevant news stories, mainly because I want to focus on the most important stories, but there are plenty of news events that are relevant to your studies appearng every hour of the day......so to make sure you know what stories are important and helpful to read, I have set up a twitter account to tweet links to the latest news whenever I see a story. The wonders of modern technology mean that you can hear the latest news very quickly, without even having to follow the news, just the KenilworthGeog twitter account.

twitter.com/#!/kenilworthgeog or click on the title of the post to be taken there

Life on the margins - Year 13

Click on the title to be taken to a useful website showing food insecurity and famine. It's called Famine Early Warning System (www.fews.net) and they are currently predicting some major famines in the Horn of Africa (Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia)


The site lists lots of countries, in different continents and presents case studies and maps showing food insecurity issues. It explains some of the causes of the problems in each of those countries.


I would say that this website is pretty much essential for all of you studying Life on the Margins.

This is a map, taken from the website, showing the current situation in Ethiopia. There are maps for a huge number of countries and not only do they show the information like this they also have pages which tell you WHO is being affected and WHAT the underlying CAUSES are.
Click here for the underlying causes of food insecurity in Ethiopia (just one of many case studies available on the site)










The website deals with countries from all over the world - Here is a link to how a tropical storm threatened food security in Central America in October - a recent report published on the 3rd of November 2011. It is well detailed and looks at the crops damaged and numbers of people affected

World population reaches 7 billion.

When this blog started about 2 years ago, I put a population counter clock in the corner of the page. It read 6.2billion. That figure has now officially hit 7 billion and there has been a lotwritten about what this rapidly rising population means for the future of the world. Below are sme links to articles that will be useful for you and your studies.

Click here to be taken to The Guardian site where they have a large number of articles about the issue. You can enter your date of birth and find out the population of the world when you were born. There are some interactive maps and resources to help you understand what has happened and why.

Click here for a podcast about population growth, questioning whether lots of people is necessarily a bad thing

The BBC also has a large section on the world at 7 billion. Agains you can get an estimate of what umber person you are out of the 7 billion and read information about how they have calculated the population of the world and how we could control it.

Year 13 homework for Mr Bains (1st November 2011)

Read the article about Ghana and Ghana's energy needs and issue and makes notes on the following:

•Where are the main energy sources found?

•How large are the reserves?

•Are they energy secure?

•What energy related issues are there in Ghana?

This is due on Friday 4th November

Click on the headline to be taken to the article