The document highlights global issues of poverty and hunger, indicating that 836 million people live in extreme poverty, primarily in Southern Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, while 795 million are undernourished, mainly in developing countries. It emphasizes the Sustainable Development Goals aimed at eradicating extreme poverty and ending hunger by 2030, including implementing social protection systems and promoting sustainable agricultural practices. The document calls for equal rights to economic resources and investment in rural infrastructure to support those most vulnerable.

2. World
Poverty
Majority, Southern Asia
and sub-Saharan Africa
836
million
still live in extreme
poverty
Earn
US$1,25
a day
one in five persons
in developing
regions
2014
Every day in 2014, 42,000 people
had to abandon their homes to
seek protection due to conflict
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL No. 1 : NO POVERTY
WORLD POVERTY

3. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL No. 1 : NO POVERTY
MYANMAR POVERTY
Poverty
Majority in
Conflict areas
Majority
still live in
extreme poverty
Earn
US$1.25
a day
No exact data as
to the
percentage

4. World
Hunger
vast majority of the
world’s hungry people
live in developing
countries.
795
million
one in nine people in the world today
are undernourished
Asia is the continent with the most
hungry people – two thirds of the
total.
66
million
12.9 per cent of the population
is undernourished.
primary school-age children
attend classes hungry across the
developing world
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL No. 2 : ZERO HUNGER
WORLD HUNGER

5. GOALS No. 1 TARGET on POVERTY
Eradicate extreme
poverty for all people
everywhere, currently
measured as people
living on less than
$1.25
Reduce at least
by half the proportion of
men, women and children
of all ages living in poverty in
all its dimensions
according to national
definitions
Implement nationally
appropriate social
protection systems
Ensure that all men and
women, in particular the
poor and the vulnerable,
have equal rights to
economic resources
Create sound policy
frameworks at the
national, regional and
international levels, based on
pro-poor and gender-
sensitive development
strategies, to support
accelerated investment in
poverty eradication
actions
2030
BY YEAR

6. GOALS No. 2 TARGET on HUNGER
2030
BY YEAR
end hunger and ensure
access by all people, in
particular the poor and
people in vulnerable
situations, including infants,
to safe, nutritious and
sufficient foo
all year round
double the agricultural
productivity and incomes of
small-scale food producers, in
particular women, indigenous
peoples, family farmers, pastoralists
and fishers, including through secure
and equal access to land, other
productive resources and inputs,
knowledge, financial services,
markets and opportunities
for value addition and
non-farm employment
ensure sustainable food
production systems and implement
resilient agricultural practices that
increase productivity and production,
that help maintain ecosystems, that
strengthen capacity for adaptation
to climate change
double the agricultural
productivity and incomes of
small-scale food producers, in
particular women, indigenous
peoples, family farmers,
pastoralists and fishers
By 2020, maintain the
genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated
plants and farmed and domesticated
animals and their related wild species,
including through soundly managed
and diversified seed and plant
banks at the national,
regional and international
levels
Increase investment,
including through enhanced
international cooperation, in rural
infrastructure, agricultural research
and extension services, technology
development and plant and
livestock gene

7. Include all
Stakeholder
MYANMAR MISSION