UN Secretary-General Calls Summit on Poverty Goals

With only five years left until the 2015 deadline to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on world leaders to attend a summit in New York on 20-22 September 2010 to accelerate progress towards the MDGs Visit the Summit website!

Laura’s work with the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) hopes to assist in reaching the MDG 1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty & Hunger by increasing agricultural production in Armenia, a country which imports almost 80% of the food its people consume. Because of its continental climate, irrigation is essential to agriculture. The agricultural strategy and legislation that Laura is working on is targeting government reforms that will directly improve farmer access to sufficient irrigation supplies at a reasonable costs while seeking to be both financially and environmentally sustainable.

By a second trip in less than two months, Laura hopes to accelerate the government approval of the agricultural strategy and legislation to improve the irrigation sector in Armenia.