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Halving Hunger: It Can Be Done (UN Millennium Project)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 363.883091724
EAN: 9781844072200
ISBN: 1844072207
Label: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Manufacturer: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2005-05
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Studio: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
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* One of 14 publications comprising the official UN strategy on how to reduce extreme poverty and achieve the fundamental worldwide human development goals for the coming decade
* Project directed by Jeffrey D. Sachs, named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine, current Director of The Earth Institute, Columbia University, and Special Adviser to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan
* The essential reference work for all governments, policymakers, aid and donor agencies, development practitioners, researchers, and students worldwide
"Halving Hunger" examines current world progress towards eliminating hunger and calls for the implementation of seven recommendations in the areas of political action, national policy reforms, increased agricultural productivity for food insecure farmers, improved nutrition for the chronically hungry, productive safety nets for the acutely hungry, improved rural incomes and markets, and restoration and conservation of natural resources essential for food security. The strategy includes over forty interventions that poor countries can select and incorporate into individual action plans. Halving hunger is possible if these interventions are implemented effectively in the 133 hunger hotspots, where hunger is most persistent and severe, and where over 70 percent of the world's 840 million hungry people currently reside.
The UN Millennium Development Library
Halving Hunger, in conjunction with the flagship publication Investing in Development, is one of 13 thematic publications that comprise the UN Millennium Library. This set of reference handbooks charts world progress and presents strategies for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions--income poverty, hunger, disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure, and shelter--by 2015, while promoting gender equality, education, health, and environmental sustainability. This Library is the official, comprehensive point of reference and action plan for achieving the fundamental development objectives embodied in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) adopted by the UN and world leaders in 2000.
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Rating: - Why Hunger Persists
This book is the product of the UN Development Program Task Force on Hunger, headed by two very bright and extremely experienced people.
The book lists the costs of allowing hunger to persist, and the programs which have been successful at strikingly reducing it. If you want to know how to do it, here it is.
Halving Hunger demonstrates that there are no technical barriers to halving hunger, there is only the apathy of the peoples of the earth who don't insist that their ... Read More
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