EU and FAO Help Six Countries Achieve Millennium Development Goal on Hunger
October 2, 2013| |
The European Union and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations formed a partnership in agricultural development to assist two million people in six countries. Countries which will be benefited include Burundi, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Haiti, Madagascar, and Mozambique. The project worth nearly €60 million came from the €1 billion EU initiative to enhance progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.
The initiative strongly promotes partnerships with UN agencies, governments and civil society to ensure that key goals, including improved nutrition and the support for agricultural policies, can be attained.
"So close to the deadline, when there is still so much to do, this good investment in agriculture will enable FAO to increase its efforts to eradicate hunger and do even more to help countries halve the proportion of hungry people by 2015," said FAO's Director-General José Graziano da Silva at a special event on the Millennium Development Goals during the UN General Assembly.
For more on this news, see http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/198122/icode/.
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