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Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations FAO and the Millennium Development Goals - The Road Ahead
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The Millennium Development Goals

Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

    Target 1: Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day

    Target 2: Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger


Achieve universal primary education

    Target 3: Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling


Promote gender equality and empower women

    Target 4: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015


Reduce child mortality

    Target 5: Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five


Improve maternal health

    Target 6: Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio


Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

    Target 7: Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS

    Target 8: Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases


Ensure environmental sustainability

    Target 9: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources

    Target 10: Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water

    Target 11: Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020


Develop a global partnership for development

    Target 12: Develop further an open trading and financial system that is rule-based, predictable and non-discriminatory. Includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction—nationally and internationally

    Target 13: Address the least developed countries’ special needs. This includes tariff- and quota-free access for their exports; enhanced debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries; cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous official development assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction

    Target 14: Address the special needs of landlocked and small island developing States

    Target 15: Deal comprehensively with developing countries’ debt problems through national and international measures to make debt sustainable in the long term

    Target 16: In cooperation with the developing countries, develop decent and productive work for youth

    Target 17: In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries

    Target 18: In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies—especially information and communications technologies