Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger (MDGs’ progress & related research from PIK)

This blog-post shows positive effects and remained concerns of one of the MDG’ eight goals, ‘Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger’ (1). It also includes research from Pamoja Imani Kenya (PIK) which relate to the concern.

MDG #1
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

Progress

• Reduced the proportion of people living on less than $1.25 a day in 1990 and 2010 from 2 billion to 1.4 billion people

• About 700 million fewer people lived in conditions of extreme poverty in 2010 than in 1990

Concerns

• 1.2 billion people still live in extreme poverty

• One in eight people still go to bed hungry, despite major progress.

Related research from PIK

• Most of mother members/ their husbands do not have proper jobs but farming at homes.

• Many of the families fail to reach food due to fail of agriculture.

1. United Nations, Millennium Development Goals website: http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/; United Nations Development Programme website:  http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/mdgoverview.html