HSS 4331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Land Degradation, Sustainable Agriculture, Sub-Saharan Africa

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSS 4331
• Professor: Raywat Deonandan

Document Summary

In 2000, millennium declaration was adopted but did not contain the mdgs in their present form. In 2001, a team of un experts created the mdgs with indicators without any inter-governmental process. In a sense, global social compact based on mutual accountability. Developing countries are held accountable for outcomes (targets) Rich countries are held accountable for providing greater support (debt relief and allowing greater access to their markets) They were expressions of what we thought the world should be: at a global level, not set to be exceedingly ambitious. Problems in phrasing: (cid:862)eradi(cid:272)ate(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)u(cid:374)i(cid:448)ersal(cid:863) are aspirational and unrealistic. Covered a 25 year period (1990 to 2015) Targets were realistic and based on trends prior to 1990. People living on less than . 25 a day: 47% in 1990 to 14% in 2016. Global out-of-school children of primary school age: 100 million in 2000 to 57 million in 2015. Goal 3: promote gender equality and empower women.