1st Edition
UN Millennium Development Library: Halving Hunger It Can Be Done
By UN Millennium Project
Copyright 2005
274 Pages
by
Routledge
274 Pages
by
Routledge
274 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015 income poverty, hunger, disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure and shelter while promoting gender equality, education, health and environmental sustainability. These bold goals can be met in all parts of the world if... Read more
Executive summary * The imperatives for reducing hunger * Who is on track or off track to meet the hunger Goal? * A strategic approach for halving hunger * Move from political commitment to action * Reform policies and create an enabling environment * Increase the agricultural productivity of food-insecure farmers * Improve nutrition for the chronically hungry and vulnerable * Reduce the vulnerability of the acutely hungry through productive safety nets * Increase incomes and make markets work for the poor * Restore and conserve the natural resources essential for food security * Implementing the recommendations of the Task Force on Hunger * Appendices *
Biography
The Millennium Project was commissioned by the UN Secretary-General and supported by the UN Development group, which is chaired by the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme. The report is an independent publication that reflects the views of the members of the Task Force on Hunger, who contributed in their personal capacity.
