* 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 inits 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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