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Human Development Report 2014
Since 1990, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has been publishing an annual Human Development Report. The latest report from July 2014, “Sustaining Human Progress: Reducing Vulnerabilities and Building Resilience”, focuses on the question of today’s precariousness. Although an improvement of human development in most countries can be observed – due to advanced technology, education or…
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Integrated and Multi-sectoral Rural Development
“Interdependence between different sectors means that poor health, food insecurity and poverty cannot be tackled effectively by addressing one sector in isolation. Influencing sustainable and positive change means adopting a holistic, multi-sectoral approach to development.” (MDG Center, East and Southern Africa, 2007). Almost half of the world_over three billion people ,live on less than $2.50 a…
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Sustainable Agriculture to End Hunger and Poverty
Photo Credit:Treehugger.com Sustainable Agriculture to End Hunger, Poverty and Poverty Related Problems Agriculture has been the dominant employer of the global working labor force, the highest contributor of the global gross domestic product (GDP) and provider of food for all of us to sustain. Over the past two decades, manufacturing and other industries overtook agriculture…