The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Kingdom are teaming up for an innovative new programme in Zimbabwe that will enable poor farming households to improve food ...

Dialogues on implementation of post-2015 development agenda (April 2014) Video: PGA post-2015 event on the role of partnerships (April 2014) Sustainable Development Newsletter (April 2014) Food and ...

As world leaders gather in New York this week to discuss the future of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals, critics are warning that many of the targets cannot be evaluated scientifically ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - About 800 million people still live in dire poverty and suffer from hunger despite the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) being the most ...

There will be no fair world, no abolition of extreme poverty, as long as the calculus of corruption undermines education, health, trade and the environment. Dramatic reduction of corruption levels is ...

How do we count how many people in the world are in poverty or hungry? And should we question those figures? The United Nations celebrates its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as, "the most ...

With the support of the Spanish Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Achievement Fund, UNESCO has played an active role in working with other UN Agencies in South East Europe to help those countries ...

Today, fewer people go hungry. There are more children attending school. Fewer and fewer people are dying unnecessarily from easily preventable and treatable diseases. Yet with only 500 days until the ...

For more than half a century the international community of nations has recognized education as a fundamental human right. In 2000, it agreed to the Millennium Development Goals, which acknowledged ...