Poverty eradication

Economic development and poverty eradication depend on secure and affordable energy supplies. Although reserves of conventional oil and gas are... 

The Cleaner Production Programme provides an active contribution to the implementation of the United Nations Millennium Declaration and the achievement of United Nations Millennium Development Goals 1 (eradicate extreme poverty and hunger), 7 (ensure environmental sustainability) and 8 (develop a global partnership for development). 

Approximately 4.5 million square miles of tropical Africa are infested by tsetse flies. They are hence subject to trypanosomiasis and unable to sustain livestock. If this area could be opened up to grazing then economic pressure to increase cattle yield would be eased. One approach to the problem has been tsetse fly eradication programmes. There is no guarantee that elimination of the vector would also eliminate trypanosomiasis as T. vivax and T. brucei have survived elsewhere in the world in the absence of tsetse flies. So far, the use of drugs to kill trypanosomes in the host has been a more successful and cheaper approach. This is an important point since trypanosomiasis is closely associated with poverty. 

Among the Millennium Development Goals, Goal 1 is to Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger . It has a target to Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than 1 a day . 

World Summit for Social Development held in Copenhagen, Denmark. First time that the international community has expressed a clear commitment to eradicate absolute poverty, http //www.un.org/esa/socdev/wssd/index.html... 

United Nations Millennium Summit. This largest ever gathering of world leaders adopted the United Nations World Summit Declaration, which spells out values and principles, as well as goals in key priority areas. World leaders agreed that the UN s first priority was the eradication of extreme poverty and highlighted the importance of a fairer world economy in an era of globalization, http //www.un.org/millennium/summit.htm... 

Biodiversity conservation and the eradication of poverty. Science, 306 1146-1149. Agarwal B. (2000). Conceptualising environmental collective action Why gender matters. 

Hutton J (2006) Welfare Reform 10 years on, 10 years ahead, speech by the Secretary of State for Employment, 18 December, Institute of Public Policy Research, London Hutton J (2007) Building Sustainable Communities Through Partnership Eradicating Child Poverty, speech by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions at the Commonwealth Club, London... 

P. Pingali, K. Stamoulis, R. Stringer, Eradicating Extreme Poverty and Hunger, ESA Working Paper No. 06-01, FAO, Rome, 2006. 

However, I do want to discuss the viability of some of the supply reduction approaches because they clearly aren t working. First of all, the United States should stop crop eradication in developing countries. As was said in the previous chapter, crop eradication is an effort to disrupt the livelihood of poor people. It not only is ineflFective it alienates these farmers from the United States. It is difficult to believe that a Colombian farmer would resist growing an alternative crop if that farmer could make the same amount of money that is made growing coca. Therefore, this is an issue of global poverty and can only be solved by international efforts on that issue. 

The world s most pressing problem is poverty and associated hunger (Figure 6.1). 600 milhon children live in absolute poverty (SCF, Beat Poverty 2003). Over 1 billion people live on less than 1 a day with nearly half the world s population (2.8 billion) living on less than 2 a day (UN HDR, 2003). Eradication of hunger and extreme poverty is now the first millennium goal of the United Nations. ... 

A wider access to energy is necessary to enable social and economic development and eradicate poverty in emerging economies. Rural electricity access, cost-effective and low-emission distributed energy generation systems, along with urban planning/re-design, are all required to ensure a reduction in social inequalities and tensions. 

Initially restricted to the SUS network, from 2006 the Programme was extended to the private sector through partnerships with pharmacies. In 2011, with the launch of the Brazil Without Extreme Poverty Plan Plano Brasil Sem Miseria), the municipalities included in this plan to eradicate extreme poverty were prioritized by the PFPB, in line with criteria adopted by the Ministry of Social Development and Combating Hunger. 

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