Halving hunger : it can be done /

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 hea...

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Corporate Author: UN Millennium Project. Task Force on Hunger
Other Authors: Sánchez, Pedro A., 1940-, Swaminathan, M. S. (Monkombu Sambasivan), Dobie, Philip, Yuksel, Nalan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Earthscan, 2005
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword; Task force members; Preface; The Task Force on Hunger's methodology; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Millennium Development Goals; Executive summary; Chapter 1: The imperatives for reducing hunger; Chapter 2: Who is on track or off track to meet the hunger Goal?; Chapter 3: A strategic approach for halving hunger; Chapter 4: Recommendation one: Move from political commitment to action; Chapter 5: Recommendation two: Reform policies and creat an enabling environment; Chapter 6: Recommendation three: Increase the agricultural productivity of food-insecure farmers.