Sentences with phrase «eradicating hunger and poverty»

Not exact matches

These goals were: to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, to achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality and empower women.

The Ghana School Feeding Programme has been ongoing since 2005, under the Comprehensive African Agricultural Development Programme Pillar III, in response to the first and second Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, and achieving universal primary education.

By 2015, the leaders pledged, the world would achieve measurable improvements in the most critical areas of human development: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality and empower women, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, combat HIV / AIDS, Malaria and other diseases, ensure environmental sustainability, global partnership for development.

If a country finds a way to meet the basic needs of women by taking loans that the whole society must pay, but the national constitution, and the various policies and services do not show the timely commitment for equity and equality, the chance to eradicate poverty and hunger will only be about the alleviation of these two major indicators of real development and sustainability It is then urgent and important not to fall in such a trap, which only comes to add to the financial and economic indebtedness of the society, and nations, to say the least, and to maintain the system of inequality and impoverishment as it basically exist..

To be attained by 2015, these were, of course, entirely laudable — e.g., «eradicate extreme poverty and hunger» and «achieve universal primary education» — and they have definitely influenced the priorities of various UN agencies, other governmental and multilateral aid providers, and private philanthropies.

«The concentration of population growth in the poorest countries will make it harder for those governments to eradicate poverty and inequality, combat hunger and malnutrition, expand education enrollment and health systems, improve the provision of basic services and implement other elements of a sustainable development agenda to ensure that no - one is left behind,» notes the report.

In fact, the UN Millennium development goals (/ / www.undp.org/mdg/) are quite similar to Lomborg's: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, empower women, reduce child mortality, combat diseases, etc..

The MDGs include nine general goals to eradicate poverty and hunger, health, education, natural resource utilization and preservation, and global partnerships that are formulated for the timeframe up to 2015 (UNDP, 2003a).

Attainment of the Millennium Development Goals, particularly the first goal of eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, in the face of climate change will therefore require science that specifically considers food insecurity as an integral element of human vulnerability within the context of complex social, economic, political and biophysical systems, and that is able to offer usable findings for decision - makers at all scales.

Those people who were lucky enough to make it through Ellis Island without being turned away because they had a cough or a sty... although people with tuberculosis and illnesses that have long been eradicated in this country are now eagerly accepted and moved into the unsuspecting population... suffered poverty, hunger, a lack of healthcare, discrimination, etc..

Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger; 2.

Millennium Development Goals - A list of ten goals, including eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, improving maternal health, and ensuring environmental sustainability, adopted in 2000 by the UN General Assembly, i.e., 191 States, to be reached by 2015.

If the goal is to eradicate poverty, hunger, and illiteracy, and lessen pressures on already strained natural resources, we have little choice but to strive for the lower projection.

After decades of failed attempts to eradicate hunger, development agencies, international research institutions, non-profit organizations, and the funding and donor communities now see family farmers as key to alleviating global poverty and hunger.