Next year will also see a new set of global goals to meet the world's most pressing development and sustainability problems.
The report comes after a UN summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, last week, where world leaders reached an agreement on how to finance some of the planet's most pressing development issues.
According to MoA and ILRI (2013), enhancing the ability of poor smallholder farmers to reach markets and actively engaging them is one of the most pressing development challenges.
Slowly but surely one of the most pressing development issues facing the international community, energy poverty, is getting the recognition it deserves.
We know that agri-food science can play a major role in combatting some of the world's most pressing development challenges, from drought, to floods, to rapid population growth and urbanization.
"We must consider this Situational Analysis of Women and Children as a blue print for collective action to support the most pressing development priority of our times.
Using both online and offline collaboration tools, the programme seeks to find and support bold, innovative solutions to some of the world's most pressing development issues.
Led by their very engaging teacher, Ms. Antoinette Perkins, some 40 students participated in a fun and interactive lesson in which they drew on their "super powers" to imagine and discuss ways to address some of the most pressing development issues in Jamaica.
Ensuring food security is one of the most pressing global development challenges (Godfray et al. 2010; World Bank 2008).
"At Harvard Business Publishing, we work to create the world's best learning experiences to help organizations discover new ways to solve their most pressing leadership development challenges," said Rich Gravelin, director of Partnerships and Alliances at Harvard Business Publishing, in a statement.
