Seminar on Millennium Development Goals of Food Security

Submitted By:-Krushna Yadav .D .K

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Millennium Development Goals of Food Security

As you all know, the MDGs are a set of numerical and time-bound targets to measure achievements in human and social development.

• Food security:- When all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food.

Primary EducationPoverty and Hunger

Empower Women

Child Mortality

HIV/AIDS and other Diseases

Environmental Sustainability

Partnership for Development

Maternal Health

Eradicate Extreme Poverty And Hunger

Millennium Development Goal: 1

•TARGET 1: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose Income is less than one dollar a day.

•Poverty Headcount Ratio (percentage of population below the national poverty line).• Share of poorest quintile in national consumption.•Prevelance of under weight children under three years age.

• TARGET 3: Ensure that by 2015 children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary education.

• Net Enrolment Ratio in primary education.• Proportion of pupils starting Grade 1 who reach Grade 5.• Literacy rate of 15-24 year olds.

Millennium Development Goal: 2

Achieve Universal Primary Education

Millennium Development Goal: 3

Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women• TARGET 4: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary

education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015.

• Ratio of girls to boys in primary, secondary and tertiary education.

• Ratio of literate women to men, 15-24 years old• Share of women in wage employment in the non-agricultural

sector.• Proportion of seats held by women in National Parliament.

Millennium Development Goal: 4

Reduce Child Mortality

• TARGET 5: Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five Mortality Rate.

• Under-Five Mortality Rate.• Infant Mortality Rate.• Proportion of one year old children immunised

against measles.

Millennium Development Goal: 5

Improve Maternal Health

• TARGET 6: Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the Maternal Mortality Ratio.

• Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR).• Proportion of births attended by skilled health

personnel.

Millennium Development Goal: 6

Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases

•TARGET 7: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS. •HIV prevalence among pregnant women aged 15-24 years.• Condom use rate of the contraceptive prevalence rate (Condom use to overall contraceptive use among currently married women, 15-49 years percent).• Condom use at last high risk sex (Condom use rate among non-regular sex partners 15-24 years).

• Percentage of population aged 15-24 years with comprehensive correct knowledge of HIV/AIDS.

• Prevalence and Death rates associated with Malaria.• Prevalence and Death rates associated with Tuberculosis.

Millennium Development Goal: 7

Ensure Environmental Sustainability

• TARGET 9: Integrate the Principles of Sustainable Development into Country Policies and Programmes and Reverse the loss of Environmental Resources.

• Proportion of land area covered by forest.• Ratio of area protected to maintain biological diversity

to surface area.• Energy use per unit of GDP (Rupee).• Carbon Dioxide emissions per capita. • Consumption of Ozone-depleting Chlorofluoro

Carbons (ODP tons).

• Proportion of population with sustainable access to an improved water source, urban and rural.

• Proportion of population with access to improved sanitation, urban and rural.

Millennium Development Goal: 8

Develop a Global Partnership for development•TARGET 13: In Co-operation with the Private Sector, make

available the benefits of new technologies, especially Information and Communication. •Telephone lines and cellular subscribers per 100 population.• Internet subscribers per 100 population.• Personal computers per 100 population.

Conclusion

• By reaching all above mentioned Targets, and with the help of indicators, India can reduce the poverty by the end of year 2015 and achieve that all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food in India.

References• Millennium Development Goals India Country Report, (2011), Central

Statistical Organization, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India.

• www.mospi.nic.in

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