World Leaders Urged to Meet Development Goals by 2015
20 September 2010
People hold signs during a campaign to fight poverty and hunger in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday. The FAO organized the campaign.
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.
World leaders are meeting in New York to discuss progress on the Millennium Development Goals they set ten years ago. Five years remain to meet eight goals to reduce hunger, poverty and disease and expand education.
On Monday, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened a three-day summit meeting of one hundred forty presidents and prime ministers. Mr. Ban called for renewed efforts to meet the goals, saying there is much more to do. He said the economic crisis "cannot be an excuse" for limiting development efforts.
A U.N. report says the world had more than one billion undernourished people last year. That followed the food crisis of two thousand seven and eight.
This year, improved economic conditions are expected to reduce the number of hungry for the first time in fifteen years. The number is predicted to drop by almost one hundred million to nine hundred twenty-five million.
Jacques Diouf, head of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, says that is still "unacceptably high."
JACQUES DIOUF: "The expected decline in world hunger in two thousand ten is primarily the result of better access to food as the global economy recovers, and food prices remain below their peak level of mid-two thousand eight."
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