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agriculture remains high on the international agenda because it
brings together critical issues like water, poverty, hunger, and
health. That is why improved agricultural productivity and growth
are central to World Bank’s strategy for reducing poverty, as
given below:-
• Fostering an enabling environment for broad based and sustainable
rural growth.
• Enhancing agricultural productivity and competitiveness;
• Fostering non-farm economic growth;
• Improving social well-being, managing and mitigating risk, and reducing
vulnerability;
• Enhancing the sustainability of natural resource management;
1.17 The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 24 are to:
eradicate extreme poverty and hunger; achieve universal primary
education; promote gender equality and empower women; reduce
child mortality; improve maternal health; combat HIV/AIDS,
malaria, and other diseases; ensure environmental sustainability,
and develop a global partnership for development. The
UN/ESCAP’s Committee on “Poverty Reduction” has emphasized
on:
• Integrating poverty reduction, sustainable development and
environmental protection;
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P.Hazell and C.Ramaswamy (1991): “The Green revolution Reconsidered: the Impact of High-Yielding Rice
Varieties in South India”, Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins Press.
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The development goals are as agreed on at international conferences and world summits during the 1990s.
At the September 2000 Millennium Summit, world leaders distilled key development goals and targets in the
Millennium Declaration. Based on the declaration, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organization
for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the United Nations, and the World Bank devised these
set of eight goals 18 numerical targets and over 40 quantifiable indicators to assess progress.
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