21世纪伊始,联合国秘书长签署新千年计划,推出《发展投资:实现千年发展目标的实际计划》的最佳策略,其中重要的一项内容是,在全世界范围内消灭极端贫穷和饥饿。为实施这一任务,联合国于2002年10月成立了扶贫工作组,规划具体方案,其目标是在1990～2015年的25年间,使饥饿的人口比 At the beginning of the 21st century, the Secretary-General of the United Nations signed the new millennium plan to launch the best strategy for “Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals.” An important element of the plan is to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger all over the world. In order to carry out this task, the United Nations established the Poverty Alleviation Working Group in October 2002 to plan concrete programs with the goal of reducing the proportion of hungry people in the 25 years from 1990 to 2015