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Cuba, Nicaragua, Peru, Venezuela Achieve UN Goals
Cuba, Nicaragua, Peru and Venezuela are the only countries in Latin America that complied with the UN goals on reducing poverty and malnourished people, the world organization confirmed today.
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Cuba, Nicaragua, Peru and Venezuela are the only countries in Latin America that complied with the UN goals on reducing poverty and malnourished people, the world organization confirmed today.
Along with those nations are the Caribbean states Guyana and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, as well as Armenia, Azerbaidzhan, Djibouti, Georgia, Ghana, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Thailand, Turkmenistan, and Vietnam.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), these countries reached the first of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the most demanding challenge of the World Food Summit (WFS).
This is the reduction by half of people suffering from hungry and the number malnourished human beings in the 1990 and 2012 period.
Other twenty nations only managed to conquer the first of these goals, among them Brazil, Chile, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Panama and Uruguay, for Latin America.
The others were Algeria, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Cambodia, Cameroon, Fiji, Indonesia, Jordan, Malawi, Maldives, Niger, Nigeria, and Togo.
What these countries have reached shows that rapid and lasting reduction of hunger can be achieved with strong political will, coordination, and cooperation, FAO Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva said.
However, the official warned that there are still 870 million malnourished people and other millions who suffer the consequences of vitamin and mineral deficiencies, including the lack of child growth. The MDGs were established in 2000 by a so-called Millennium Summit convened by the United Nations to be fulfilled in 2015, and seek reducing by half extreme poverty and hunger and achieving universal primary education.
We also aim to achieve gender equality and women's autonomy, reduce infant mortality by two thirds between 1990 and 2015, improve maternal health, and fight HIV-AIDS, malaria, and other diseases.
The purpose related to the reduction of malnutrition was agreed by the WFS in 1996 with the participation of 180 nations.
Along with those nations are the Caribbean states Guyana and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, as well as Armenia, Azerbaidzhan, Djibouti, Georgia, Ghana, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Thailand, Turkmenistan, and Vietnam.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), these countries reached the first of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the most demanding challenge of the World Food Summit (WFS).
This is the reduction by half of people suffering from hungry and the number malnourished human beings in the 1990 and 2012 period.
Other twenty nations only managed to conquer the first of these goals, among them Brazil, Chile, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Panama and Uruguay, for Latin America.
The others were Algeria, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Cambodia, Cameroon, Fiji, Indonesia, Jordan, Malawi, Maldives, Niger, Nigeria, and Togo.
What these countries have reached shows that rapid and lasting reduction of hunger can be achieved with strong political will, coordination, and cooperation, FAO Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva said.
However, the official warned that there are still 870 million malnourished people and other millions who suffer the consequences of vitamin and mineral deficiencies, including the lack of child growth. The MDGs were established in 2000 by a so-called Millennium Summit convened by the United Nations to be fulfilled in 2015, and seek reducing by half extreme poverty and hunger and achieving universal primary education.
We also aim to achieve gender equality and women's autonomy, reduce infant mortality by two thirds between 1990 and 2015, improve maternal health, and fight HIV-AIDS, malaria, and other diseases.
The purpose related to the reduction of malnutrition was agreed by the WFS in 1996 with the participation of 180 nations.