MDG 1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger

More than 1 billion people survive on less than one dollar a day, and more than 800 million — mostly women and children — go hungry every day. To meet this challenge, agricultural research is delivering results:

- CGIAR investment in developing improved maize varieties contributes $1 billion annually to the economies of developing countries.

- New Rices for Africa, or NERICAs, which combine the high productivity of Asian varieties and the local adaptation of African rice, are now planted on 100,000 hectares across Africa, including 10,000 hectares in Uganda alone.

- Newly developed orange-fleshed sweetpotato varieties with enhanced beta-carotene are proving valuable in the fight against vitamin A deficiency, which afflicts some 3 million children in sub-Saharan Africa under the age of five.

- S-35, a new sorghum variety developed by the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics and its partners, is grown on nearly 30 percent of the total rainfed sorghum area of Cameroon and Chad. Benefits include higher grain yields and reduced production costs.

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