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Millennium Development Goals

Ploughing the traditional way, India. Ploughing the traditional way, India.
Photo: Bruce Eady/OxfamAUS.

In 2000 the member states of the United Nations set themselves the target of significantly reducing world poverty by the year 2015.

The Millennium Development Goals are:

  1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
  2. Achieve universal primary education
  3. Promote gender equality and empower women
  4. Reduce child mortality by two thirds for children under five
  5. Improve maternal health
  6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
  7. Ensure environmental sustainability
  8. Develop a global partnership for development

There is no way these goals will be reached if agricultural trade rules continue to undermine the livelihoods of millions of farmers through unfair trade or ill conceived liberalisation.

Governments must renew their resolve to meet the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, by tackling the global farming crisis and instituting fairer trade rules, along with more and better aid and debt relief.

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