At the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000, 189 Member States adopted the Millennium Declaration and pledged to reach the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015.
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FAO: FAO Home - 0 views
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Food and Agriculture Org of the UN
unstats | Millennium Indicators - 1 views
UN: farmers must produce 70% more food by 2050 to feed population - 0 views
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The United Nations has completed the first global assessment of the state of the planet's land resources, finding in a report that a quarter of all farmland is highly degraded and warning the trend must be reversed if the world's growing population is to be fed.
UN Thematic Think Pieces on Post-2015 | Post2015.org - what comes after the MDGs? - 2 views
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Think Pieces. Post 2015... Looking ahead.
United Nations in Vietnam - 3 views
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This website is the UN in Vietnam and looks at each MDG from a local perspective!
What are the MDGs? - 0 views
Viet Nam & the MDGs - 0 views
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Viet Nam has made very impressive progress towards achieving the MDGs and has been successful in meeting some of them – such as MDG 1 on eradication of extreme hunger and poverty – way ahead of the 2015 deadline.
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if Viet Nam is to achieve all the MDGs with equity, it is important that progress is sustained, that rising disparities are better targeted, that risks are anticipated and that remaining gaps are addressed
UNICEF - UNICEF Home - 0 views
Hans Rosling: The good news of the decade? - 2 views
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Hans Rosling reframes 10 years of UN data with his spectacular visuals, lighting up an astonishing -- mostly unreported -- piece of front-page-worthy good news: We're winning the war against child mortality. Along the way, he debunks one flawed approach to stats that blots out such vital stories.
The MDGs Report 2014 Addendum: Goal 4, Reduce Child Mortality - 0 views
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Despite substantial progress, the world is still falling short of the MDG child mortality target.
Water scarcity | International Decade for Action 'Water for Life' 2005-2015 - 2 views
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Water scarcity already affects every continent. Around 1.2 billion people, or almost one-fifth of the world's population, live in areas of physical scarcity, and 500 million people are approaching this situation. Another 1.6 billion people, or almost one quarter of the world's population, face economic water shortage (where countries lack the necessary infrastructure to take water from rivers and aquifers). The way water scarcity issues are addressed impacts upon the successful achievement of most of the Millennium Development Goals.
Shake the world - MDG activities - 5 views
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Welcome! It is time to Shake the World. How? By joining the global Shake the World movement to support the Millennium Development Goals. These are the eight goals set by the UN in september 2000 to reduce poverty by half by the year 2015. Five years to go, eight goals to achieve, time to shake the world!
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