The Summit on soaring food prices, convened by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), has concluded with the adoption by acclamation of a declaration calling on the international community to increase assistance for developing countries, in particular the least developed countries and those that are most negatively affected by high food prices.
The dramatic surge in food prices has plunged millions of poor people and many net food importing poor countries into a food crisis. Consequently, it has also put at risk their chances of achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. Whilst the focus has been on the impact on the MDG1 of reducing poverty and hunger, given the close inter-connectedness between all the 8 MDGs, the impact on these sections of the poor on health, education and livelihoods more broadly, cannot be underestimated.
UN Secretary-General calls on rich and poor countries to boost efforts and meet aid commitments
More than halfway to the 2015 deadline to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), major advances in the fight against poverty and hunger have begun to slow or even reverse as a result of the global economic and food crises, a progress report by the United Nations has found. The assessment, launched by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in Geneva, warns that, despite many successes, overall progress has been too slow for most of the targets to be met by 2015.
NEW ANALYSIS SHOWS THAT FINANCIAL INDUSTRY HAS RECEIVED ALMOST TEN TIMES MORE IN BAILOUT MONEY IN PAST YEAR THAN POOR COUNTRIES
Ahead of UN General Assembly’s high‐level summit on the economic crisis on June 24‐26, UN Millennium Campaign says new analysis indicates that finding money for aid is a matter of political will – not lack of resources – and calls on donors to finally meet their aid commitments
Nairobi, April 30- As the world marks this year’s Labor Day, the United Nations Millennium Campaign is calling on African governments to use human rights approaches to tackle poverty if they are to halve the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day by 2015.
A city in Brazil recruited local farmers to help do something U.S. cities have yet to do: end hunger.
“To search for solutions to hunger means to act within the principle that the status of a citizen
surpasses that of a mere consumer.”
CITY OF BELO HORIZONTE,
BRAZIL
UN MILLENNIUM CAMPAIGN URGES WORLD LEADERS TO PRIORITIZE SOLUTIONS FOR THE POOR AT G-20 MEETING
As economic crisis threatens to reduce development assistance by at least $4,5 billion and push more than 50 million more people into poverty, UN Millennium Campaign urges world leaders to prioritize solutions for the poor at G-20 Meeting.
Millennium Campaign cautions that while additional resources are urgently needed to
help the world’s poor survive the economic crisis, they must be free of harmful
conditionalities that increase indebtedness and put at risk the achievement of the
Millennium Development Goals
In early 2008, soaring food prices drew extensive public attention to the issue of hunger in the Asia-Pacific region. The food price crisis threatened to reverse critical gains made toward reducing poverty and hunger as outlined in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Much of the increased attention focused on the issue of price rather than the structural causes of hunger, including social exclusion, inequitable distribution, access to natural resources and low agricultural productivity.
UN MILLENNIUM CAMPAIGN CALLS ON G-7 FINANCE MINISTERS
The United Nations Millennium Campaign is urging G-7 finance ministers, meeting in Rome on February 13-14 to address the economic crisis, not to forget about the world’s poorest people, who have had nothing to do with the causes of the crisis, but are facing the consequences.
