SOLVING THE WORLD’S PROBLEMS 2: The Millennium Campaign
April 12, 2008 by ren
Filed under Corporate Finance
Experts predict a food crisis in the near term. In developed economies, it is still just a more than usual increase in food prices. There are shortages in some countries. In others, there are food riots.
A ProForma Balance Sheet shows how the food crisis has developed:
In 2000 at the United Nations Millennium Summit, 189 nations signed a Millennium Declaration which sets forth 8 development goals to be achieved by 2015.
Source: http://www.undp.org/mdg/basics.shtml
Three of the Millennium Development Goals, with their focus on poverty, environmental sustainability, and global cooperative effort, address the food crisis directly. As the Millennium Campaign proclaims:
We are the first generation that can end poverty.
Balance Sheet graphics by Ren Garcia
