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What are the Sustainable Development Goals?


Today the world is more connected with more technology than other segments.

The United Nations’ Sustainable Development program /Agenda, adopted in year 2015, includes 17 sustainable development Goals (SDGs) to be achieved by 2030. Countries around the world have committed to taking action to meet these goals, such as ending hunger and poverty, creating sustainable cities and communities, and making health care available to all.

As responsible citizens we should have a thorough understanding on following aspects
1. Who developed SDGs? UNDP or United Nations Development Program
2. How many goals are there in that program? 17 Goals
3. Which year the SDGs are to be achieved? 2030
4. Which goal is more relevant to Agriculture? Goal 2 : Zero Hunger
5. What is the name of the previous program to the SDG and how many goals it had? Millenium  
    Development Goals (MDG) and it had seven (7) goals

Background on the goals

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were born at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro in 2012. The objective was to produce a set of universal goals that meet the urgent environmental, political and economic challenges facing our world.

The SDGs replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which started a global effort in 2000 to tackle the indignity of poverty. The MDGs established measurable, universally-agreed objectives for tackling extreme poverty and hunger, preventing deadly diseases, and expanding primary education to all children, among other development priorities.

For 15 years, the MDG drove progress in several important areas: reducing income poverty, providing much needed access to water and sanitation, driving down child mortality and drastically improving maternal health. They also kick-started a global movement for free primary education, inspiring countries to invest in their future generations. Most significantly, the MDGs made huge strides in combatting HIV/AIDS and other treatable diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis.

Watch how the UNDP led world leaders shift from MDG to SDGs. Video
                                                                                                              

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http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/sustainable-development-goals.html

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