Sustainable Development Goals

AARDO has organized several programmes addressing the core issues for sustainable agricultural and rural development for its member countries in last one decade. While celebrating 50th Anniversary of African-Asian Rural Development Organization (AARDO), the Ministers of AARDO member countries adopted the recommendations of the international seminar on “Rural Development: Retrospect and Prospects”, organized in course of the celebration on 5-6th March 2012 as "AARDO Declaration on Rural Development', 2012. There are many common threads between SDGs and AARDO Declaration, 2012, which among others are poverty alleviation, eradication of hunger, women empowerment and so on. .