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The Vision puts forward the following strategies for the realization of competence
and competitiveness goal are the following:
i. Sound macroeconomic management
ii. Infrastructural development
ii. Promotion of science and technology education
iii. Promotion of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)
iv. The utilization of domestic resources
v. Transformation of the economy towards competitiveness
vi. Development of the capacity to anticipate and respond to external
changes
The strategy with direct relevance to this project is Transformation of the
economy towards competitiveness. Under this strategy it is envisioned that the
quality of livelihood should be raised by increasing the level of productivity in all
sectors.
The strategy to be adopted is that of transforming the economy from a
predominantly agricultural one with low productivity to a diversified and semiindustrialized
economy with a modern rural sector and high productivity in
agricultural production, which generates reasonably high incomes and ensures
food security and food self-sufficiency.
High productivity in agricultural production may entail use of more pesticides and
fertilizers. Although the vision does not expound on strategies to improve life
expectancy comparable to the level attained by typical middle-income countries,
it may be implied that control of disease such as malaria will be inevitable, which
may also promote use of pesticides. The impacts of unsafe use of pesticides are
similar to those under section 2.3.
4.0 MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
4.1 Introduction to Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
The overriding health and environment related goals for sustainable development
are given in the eight Millennium Development Goals from the Millennium
Summit in September 2000,
http://www.developmentgoals.org/About_the_goals.htm (accessed 14 June
2005). The goals have been commonly accepted as a framework for measuring
development progress.
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