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THE ROAD AHEAD FAO and the Millennium Development Goals
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A high-level advisory committee set up to help FAO respond more effectively to the challenge of meeting the MDGs by 2015 met at FAO Headquarters, in Rome, on 7-8 September 2006. Chairperson Prof. Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, regretted that little progress has been made to reduce chronic malnutrition and extreme poverty in the world.(FAO Photo: Dr. Swaminathan)
Sub-Saharan Africa and South-Asia are the two major hunger hot spots in the world, stated Dr. Swaminathan in FAO this week:
Agriculture to be a priority, says Swaminathan.
Produced by:
Charlotte Windle/Liliane Kambirigi
Reference:
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