- Home
- United Nations Social Development Network
- Thematic Areas
- Thematic Areas
Cooperatives, Poverty Eradication
05 February 2014 | Cooperatives, Poverty Eradication
The head of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has welcomed a breakthrough commitment by African leaders to end hunger on the continent by 2025, and has pledged the UN's support as they work to “transform vision into reality…
05 February 2014 | Cooperatives, Poverty Eradication
The head of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has welcomed a breakthrough commitment by African leaders to end hunger on the continent by 2025, and has pledged the UN's support as they work to “transform vision into reality…
31 January 2014 | Poverty Eradication
Urging greater efforts to identify and address the gaps that prevent the most disadvantaged of the world’s 2.2 billion children from enjoying their rights, the United Nations released an innovative new report today spotlighting the importance of…
14 January 2014 | Poverty Eradication
This E-publication is based on papers presented at two Expert Group Meetings (jointly organized by DSPD and the ILO) that brought together specialists to undertake a review of progress in eradicating poverty and to analyse policy responses to the…
14 January 2014 | Poverty Eradication
The MDGs have served as a powerful incentive to mobilise the international community and drive action by developed and developing countries alike. Together with its Member states, the EU provided more than half of global aid in 2012. In addition to…
10 January 2014 | Poverty Eradication
Timor-Leste, Asia-Pacific’s youngest country, today became the region’s first to launch a national campaign under the United Nations Zero Hunger Challenge, which seeks to ensure universal access to food in the face of looming threats such as climate…