Entries Tagged as 'United Nations'

Tracking the Millennium Development Goal


mdgmonitor.org
The MDG Monitor shows how countries are progressing in their efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). With the 2015 target date fast approaching, it is more important than ever to understand where the goals are on track, and where additional efforts and support are needed, both globally and at the country level.

The MDG Monitor is designed as a tool for policymakers, development practitioners, journalists, students and others to:

TRACK progress through interactive maps and country-specific profiles

LEARN about countries’ challenges and achievements and get the latest news

SUPPORT organizations working on the MDGs around the world

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Visit the Goal Pages to learn about each of the 8 MDGs and read success stories.

FreeRice

Web game provides rice for hungry

WFP food aid being distributed in Somalia - 26/09/2007

The WFP says hunger is the world’s number one emergency

An internet word game has generated enough rice to feed 50,000 people for one day, the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) has said. The game, FreeRice, tests the vocabulary of participants. For each click on a correct answer, the website donates money to buy 10 grains of rice.

Companies advertising on the website provide the money to the WFP to buy and distribute the rice.

FreeRice went online in early October and has now raised 1bn grains of rice.

That is enough rice to feed 50,000 people for one day, the WFP said on Friday.

http://www.freerice.com

ECO 92 – United Nations Conference on Environment and Development


Rio de Janeiro June/1992
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Summit
Agenda 21