Climate change goes between the sheets

Cut back: Less hanging about here. and get to the fields, says SADC
Cut back: Less hanging about here. and get to the fields, says SADC

With a record 41 million people in need of food relief in the region and climate change forecasts pointing to declining resources in the future, SADC leaders are due to consider a proposal to limit families in the region to four people by 2050. Staff Writer, MBONGENI MGUNI reports

More efforts in the fields and less in the bedroom, is the message from a proposal by SADC responding to the poor forecasts for resources in the region.

Within 34 years or by 2050, the region’s member states could be enforcing a policy that families should be limited to four people, typically, parents and two children. By then, the generations where families would number up to 12 or more and include several wives, mistresses and their children, would be a thing of the past, if regional leaders have it their way.

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