The African Millennium Village Initiative (Phase 2)
- Lead PI: Dr. Vijay Modi , Pedro Sanchez
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Unit Affiliation: Agriculture & Food Security Center
- January 2008 - June 2011
- Inactive
- Africa ; Sub-Saharan Africa
- Project Type: Research
DESCRIPTION: The Millennium Villages Project (MVP) offers a bold, innovative model for helping rural African communities lift themselves out of extreme poverty. The Millennium Villages are proving that by fighting poverty at the village level through community-led development, rural Africa can achieve the Millennium Development Goals — global targets for reducing extreme poverty and hunger by half and improving education, health, gender equality and environmental sustainability — by 2015, and escape the extreme poverty that traps hundreds of millions of people throughout the continent.