Search Results - "Millennium Development Goals"

Environmental and health impacts of urban sanitation services in Côte d’Ivoire by Parfait, K., Kouassi, D., Hung Nguyen-Viet, Zurbrugg, C., Bonfoh, Bassirou, Jean, B.

“…Equitable access to urban sanitation services is necessary for populations’ welfare and well-being and is one of the Millennium Development Goals. This study highlights how the lack of access to urban waste management infrastructure and services impacts human health and the environment.…”
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Senior Australian parliamentarian impressed with the enthusiasm of ILRI and BecA Scientists by International Livestock Research Institute

“…McMullan also underlines his country’s dedication to the millennium development goals and compliments the enthusiasm of the scientists at ILRI and BecA.…”
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Bridging the gap between the agriculture and health sectors by von Braun, Joachim, Ruel, Marie T., Gillespie, Stuart

“…As a unified set of global poverty reduction goals, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in principle provide an opportunity for overcoming sectoral divides and forging effective links between agriculture and health. …”
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Sustainable integrated management of whiteflies as vectors of viruses of cassava and sweetpotato: situation analysis of three farmers groups in south eastern Nigeria by Okwusi, M., Ogbe, F., Nwauzor, E.C., Asumugha, G.N., Mbanasor, E., Akinpelu, A.O., Legg, James P., Emehute, J.K.

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Halving Hunger : It Can Be Done. An action plan for implementing the millenium development goal on hunger by Millenium Project Hunger Task Force

“…It differs from other globalinitiatives mainly in its response to the Millennium Development Goals, its interdependencywith the recommendations of the nine other task forces addressing the other millenniumdevelopment goals, and the more business plan approach, going beyond what should bedone. …”
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Trends in public agricultural spending in Swaziland by Nhlengethwa, Sibusiso B., Matchaya, Greenwell C., Musaba, Emmanuel, Chilonda, Pius

“…Consequently, this will lead to the attainment of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP) targets, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and facilitate economic growth.…”
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An ambitious development goal: Ending hunger and undernutrition by 2025 by Fan, Shenggen, Polman, Paul

“…Much attention in 2013 was devoted to considering what should follow the Millennium Development Goals, which will come to an end in 2015. …”
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Estimating public agricultural expenditure requirements by Benin, Samuel, Fan, Shenggen, Johnson, Michael E.

“…Studies that estimate the public financial resources required to achieve specific development objectives have focused on costing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Public agricultural financial resources needed to achieve specific agricultural development objectives or broader targets are dealt with indirectly in a few studies only.…”
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Social protection and food security by Hidrobo, Melissa, Hoddinott, John F., Kumar, Neha, Olivier, Meghan

“…Halving global hunger has been one of the preeminent Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) over the last 15 years (United Nations, 2000) and its elimination is a key component of post-MDG objectives (HLPEP, 2013). …”
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Assessing crop production and input use patterns in Ghana: What can we learn from the Ghana living standards survey by Quiñones, Esteban J., Diao, Xinshen

“…Moreover, agriculture is the most important sector for poverty reduction and has helped the country become the first Sub-Saharan African country to achieve the first objective of Millennium Development Goals (MDG1) by halving the country's 1990 poverty rate before the 2015 target year.…”
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Global warming and food engineering emissions by Kolawole, P.

“…This is threatening human pro-gress and making the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for poverty reduction unachievable. …”
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Forests, Trees and Agroforestry: Full Proposal 2017-2022 by CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry

“…Humankind has made significant progress towards achieving several of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG): poverty and hunger have been reduced, and nutrition and health have improved. …”
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Forests, Trees and Agroforestry: Full Proposal Plus Annexes 2017-2022 by CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry

“…Humankind has made significant progress towards achieving several of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG): poverty and hunger have been reduced, and nutrition and health have improved. …”
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Measuring progress in attaining targets by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…IN THE ERA of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the amount of data available to assess progress in development grew rapidly through formal surveys, administrative data, civil registration, and mobile telephones (UN 2014b; World Bank and WHO 2014).…”
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Building an agricultural research for development system in Africa by Mbabu, Adiel, Ochieng, Cosmas M. O.

“…Specifically, the paper puts forth the argument that achieving the development targets set by African leaders and the international community, for example, through the Millennium Development Goals, will be extremely difficult without a satisfactory re-orientation of the organization and management of African research for development systems. …”
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IFPRI's strategy at a glance: toward food and nutrition security by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Finally, the agenda built on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) calls for IFPRI’s contribution.…”
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Involvement of women farmers in seed yam production in Abia state, Nigeria by Ironkwe, A., Unamma, R.P., Asiedu, Robert

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Water quality in Malawi : effluent water from a matchstick factory in Blantyre by Schütz, Johanna

“… Fresh drinking water and basic sanitation is one of the Millennium Development Goals adopted by the United Nations. Poorly cleaned water may expose living organisms to diseases such as cholera and diarrhea to mention a few. …”

2010 Global Hunger Index: The challenge of hunger: Focus on the crisis of child undernutrition by von Grebmer, Klaus, Ruel, Marie T., Menon, Purnima, Nestorova, Bella, Olofinbiyi, Tolulope, Fritschel, Heidi, Yohannes, Yisehac, von Oppeln, Constanze, Towey, Olive, Golden, Kate, Thompson, Jennifer

“…As the world approaches the 2015 deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)—which include a goal of reducing the proportion of hungry people by half—the 2010 Global Hunger Index (GHI) offers a useful multidimensional overview of global hunger. …”
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Bioenergy and agriculture: Promises and challenges: Developing bioenergy: A win-win approach that can serve the poor and the environment by Hazell, Peter B. R.

“…In principle, there is a high degree of congruency between these three objectives for bioenergy production and the poverty reduction targets embodied in the Millennium Development Goals. But the development of bioenergy also poses risks and has the potential to result in difficult trade-offs for the poor and the environment. …”
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