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4.2 How do the MDGs link to Pesticide Use?
4.2.1 The Millennium Development Goals
The following are the eight Millennium Development Goals:
Goal 1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Goal 2 Achieve universal primary education
Goal 3 Promote gender equality and empower women
Goal 4 Reduce child mortality
Goal 5 Improve maternal health
Goal 6 Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
Goal 7 Ensure environmental sustainability
Goal 8 Develop a global partnership for development
To these goals there are 18 targets, such as Target 2: Halve, between 1990 and
2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger. The targets in turn are
linked with 54 indicators, such as Indicator 5: Proportion of the population below
minimum level of dietary energy consumption. For each indicator, there is
detailed information on e.g. the method of computation and gender issues.
4.2.2 Links between goals and human health and environmental
protection
A recent report 6 from the follow-up of the MDGs provides suggestions for linking
the goals with environmental issues. Some of these links may be relevant to
pesticide use, such as
Goal
Eradicate
extreme
poverty and
hunger
Combat major
diseases
Develop a global
partnership for
development
Link
Insecure rights of the poor to environmental resources, as well
as inadequate access to environmental information, markets,
and decision-making, limit their capacity to protect the
environment and improve their livelihoods and well-being.
Preventive environmental health measures are as important,
and at times more cost-effective, than health treatment.
Since rich countries consume far more environmental
resources and produce more waste than poor countries, many
environmental problems (such as climate change, loss of
species diversity, and management of global fisheries) must
be solved through a global partnership of developed and
6 UN Millennium Project 2005. Environment and Human Well-being: A Practical Strategy. Summary
version of the report of the Task Force on Environmental Sustainability. The Earth Institute at Columbia
University, New York, USA.
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