Important Sustainable Goals for 2016

Premiere DateJan 1, 2016
Series Page Download Sponsor: AT&T
Categories Culture Politics Talk
00:00 The Daily Beat Intro
00:30 The Daily Beat pt. 1 Barbara Ekwall
04:20 The Daily Beat pt. 2 Mainstreaming Goals
07:00 The Daily Beat pt. 3 Reducing food waste
10:20 The Daily Beat Outro
10:37 Sway Plaitum
15:28 Finish

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This week on the Daily Beat: We look into the work of  The United Nations’ Millennial Goals and the new goals set for the future.

Today on the Daily Beat, Friday January 1, 2015: The year 2015 marks the end of the monitoring period for the Millennium Development Goal targets. For the developing regions, undernourished people in the total population have decreased from 23.3 percent in 1990–92 to 12.9 percent. We ask Barbara Ekwall, Senior Liaison Officer at the North America Office of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, about the most successful initiatives at achieving this goal.

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HOST Lisa Autz
Lisa Autz is a staff writer, as well as Host of The Daily Beat and Co-Host of Third Eye Weekly. Lisa has a background in journalism and economics. She enjoys working on stories that shed light on the…

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