1. Can We Achieve The MDG’S BY 2015?
What has Been Achieved Already?
1) 30% of Sub Sahara’s population is not suffering from extreme
What is the main aim/aims for this MDG? What do they want to achieve by poverty and food insecurity anymore. They have got more food
2015? crops, which is supplied in their country.
1) Between 1990 and 2015, part of people’s salary is less than one
dollar a day. They have to increase workers salary. -Rice is a major source of calories; the prices are high in Africa countries.
2) Between 1990 and 2015,people suffered from hunger. This It’s not affordable for poor. Rice are mostly supplied to MEDC countries
happens mostly in African countries. In order to afford to buy food and due to biofuel policies.
not starve, workers salary has to increase.
3)Raise awareness to everyone about this MDG. -Rice production in sub-Saharan Africa, the rice production is increasing
from 8.6 million tonnes of paddy rice in 1980 to 12.6 million tonnes in
2005.
Why is this goal so Important? Why did the UN choose to focus on it?
1) This goal is important because more than 850 million people are 2) The number of people below the poverty line in Nepal has dropped by
dying of hunger. 11% in less than a decade.
2) Every year more than 10 million children are dying of hunger.
3) People can’t afford to buy food since their salary is less than one -The availability matches the demand for the people’s salary. It shows
dollar that is progressing.
4) By lowering poverty, the UN would be giving more youngsters the
QUOTE from Organizations and projects:
chance to improve themselves and thus, develop their respective
“You and I want our lives to matter. We want our lives to make a real
countries in the future, leading to a more economically stable world.
difference – to be of genuine consequence in the world. We know that there is
5)Due to famine, weather and poverty .Some places they don’t get no satisfaction in merely going through the motions, even if those motions
enough water to grow crops which would feed the population. make us successful or even if we have arranged to make those motions
pleasant. We want to know we have had some impact on the world. In fact, you
How To They Hope to Achieve This Goal? and I want to contribute to the quality of life. We want to make the world
work.”-Werner Erhard, The Hunger Project Source Document
1) Productive employment and decent work for all the people who are
not able to support their family.
2) Government needs to provide immediate help to 11 million “We exist to provide opportunities for people living in poverty to transform
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