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Vandana Shiva on MDGs and Food Security

Video Last week more than 140 countries met at the United Nations (UN), to track progress on achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Despite UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, taking a more optimistic view, a UN report earlier this year contends that most MDGs will not be met by 2015. The area lagging furthest behind in meeting MDGs is sub-Saharan Africa. There are more than one billion hungry people worldwide. A key target of the UN is to end world poverty and hunger, amongst other...