Topic: Population Control

From demonstration farms launched when farming was still unmechanized to confronting climate change in the twenty-first century, American philanthropy has played a key role in shaping and supporting efforts to lift rural communities out of poverty through agriculture.

Women and technocratic elites clashed at the 1974 World Population Conference. At stake was women’s control over their own bodies.

A 1994 meeting moved women’s empowerment front and center for grantmaking in global population.

As the scarcity of global resources became increasingly worrisome in the 20th century, these organizations more boldly approached work in population and family planning.