UN General Assembly
2013

doing. We are lagging far behind with regard to MDG 1 in its four main indicators. There is not much chance of meeting those targets by 2015 despite the efforts we have been making. However, we have been intensifying actions to transform and modernize our agriculture. Our aim is to increase productivity and farmers’ incomes, as well as to ensure food and nutrition security for them and the nation. Agriculture employs 75 per cent of the Tanzanian population, and it is in that sector where the majority of poor are concentrated. Therefore, improved agriculture will mean fewer poor people and fewer hungry people. Plans are also under way to expand the conditional cash-transfer programme under the Tanzania Aocial Action Fund supported by the World Bank. We want to increase the size of investment to benefit more vulnerable people, so as to accelerate the implementation of MDG 1 in the shortest possible time. Generally, it remains my firm belief that despite some failures, the MDGs have been nothing short of a remarkable success. If developed countries provided