Agricultural biodiversity and elimination of hunger and poverty: UN Millennium development goals: five years later: the Chennai Platform for Action

This booklet presents the 'Chennai Platform for Action' to enhance the contribution of plant genetic resources to meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), especially to reducing hunger and poverty. The action plan described in this booklet is intended to help national governments and interna...

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Autor principal: International Plant Genetic Resources Institute
Formato: Artículo preliminar
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/104997
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description This booklet presents the 'Chennai Platform for Action' to enhance the contribution of plant genetic resources to meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), especially to reducing hunger and poverty. The action plan described in this booklet is intended to help national governments and international agencies to achieve the goal of halving hunger and poverty by 2015. It promotes the principles of giving agricultural biodiversity greater importance in national and international development strategies and creating the required enabling policy conditions for the sustainable utilization of this treasure for the benefi t of the poorest and marginalized members of our society. The action plan calls for increased international collaboration in the conservation and sustainable and equitable sharing of the benefi ts arising from the use of agricultural biodiversity. It underlines the urgent need for action in nationally appropriate ways for meeting the MDGs.
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spelling CGSpace1049972025-11-05T07:59:22Z Agricultural biodiversity and elimination of hunger and poverty: UN Millennium development goals: five years later: the Chennai Platform for Action International Plant Genetic Resources Institute food security poverty nutrition data collection This booklet presents the 'Chennai Platform for Action' to enhance the contribution of plant genetic resources to meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), especially to reducing hunger and poverty. The action plan described in this booklet is intended to help national governments and international agencies to achieve the goal of halving hunger and poverty by 2015. It promotes the principles of giving agricultural biodiversity greater importance in national and international development strategies and creating the required enabling policy conditions for the sustainable utilization of this treasure for the benefi t of the poorest and marginalized members of our society. The action plan calls for increased international collaboration in the conservation and sustainable and equitable sharing of the benefi ts arising from the use of agricultural biodiversity. It underlines the urgent need for action in nationally appropriate ways for meeting the MDGs. 2005 2019-10-15T15:44:07Z 2019-10-15T15:44:07Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/104997 en https://www.bioversityinternational.org/index.php?id=244&tx_news_pi1[news]=907 Open Access application/pdf International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (2005) Agricultural biodiversity and elimination of hunger and poverty. n. 5 p.
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International Plant Genetic Resources Institute
Agricultural biodiversity and elimination of hunger and poverty: UN Millennium development goals: five years later: the Chennai Platform for Action
title Agricultural biodiversity and elimination of hunger and poverty: UN Millennium development goals: five years later: the Chennai Platform for Action
title_full Agricultural biodiversity and elimination of hunger and poverty: UN Millennium development goals: five years later: the Chennai Platform for Action
title_fullStr Agricultural biodiversity and elimination of hunger and poverty: UN Millennium development goals: five years later: the Chennai Platform for Action
title_full_unstemmed Agricultural biodiversity and elimination of hunger and poverty: UN Millennium development goals: five years later: the Chennai Platform for Action
title_short Agricultural biodiversity and elimination of hunger and poverty: UN Millennium development goals: five years later: the Chennai Platform for Action
title_sort agricultural biodiversity and elimination of hunger and poverty un millennium development goals five years later the chennai platform for action
topic food security
poverty
nutrition
data collection
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/104997
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