The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Kingdom are teaming up for an innovative new programme in Zimbabwe that will enable poor farming households to improve food ...

In 2000, 189 countries collectively adopted the Millennium Declaration, which evolved into an ambitious set of concrete targets called the Millennium Development Goals, to be achieved by the end of ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Across the world, progress in pursuing the Millennium Development Goals is uneven, with sub-Saharan Africa as the region that lags the most, says Raj M. Desai, nonresident senior fellow ...

There will be no fair world, no abolition of extreme poverty, as long as the calculus of corruption undermines education, health, trade and the environment. Dramatic reduction of corruption levels is ...

Washington, D.C., 30 September 2016 (PAHO/WHO) - The countries of the Americas met almost all the health targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), according to a report presented to the ...

In 2015, UN members unanimously adopted the Sustainable Development Goals, designed to guide global progress toward a more prosperous and sustainable future. Building on a set of earlier goals known ...

World leaders are meeting next week at a United Nations Summit in New York to review progress made to alleviate poverty around the world since the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were set a little ...

Access to clean water remains a huge problem in Zimbabwe and many other African countries. EFE-EPA/Aaron Ufumeli In some respects the hype is justified. The goals cover a much wider range of ...

Dialogues on implementation of post-2015 development agenda (April 2014) Video: PGA post-2015 event on the role of partnerships (April 2014) Sustainable Development Newsletter (April 2014) Food and ...

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