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Combating and eradicating poverty is one of the principal priorities of the international community. The 1995 UN World Summit for Social Development (Copenhagen 6 – 12 March 1995) expressed the commitment to this goal as an ethical, social, political and economic imperative of humankind. The UN Millennium Declaration adopted by the fifty-fourth session of the General Assembly, New York, September 2000, contains the commitment to halve, by the year 2015, the proportion of the world’s population whose income is less than one dollar a day and the proportion of people who suffer from hunger. The 1996 Rome Declaration on World Food Security pledged political will and common and national commitment by governments to achieving food security for all and to reducing the number of undernourished people to half their present level no later than 2015.
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Willmann, R. (2004). Poverty in Coastal Fishing Communities. In: Neiland, A.E., Béné, C. (eds) Poverty and Small-scale Fisheries in West Africa. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2736-5_14
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