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IFAD’s Rural Poverty Report IFAD’s Rural Poverty Report 20012001
•2015 targets
•Assets
•Rural Poverty
•Technology
•Institutions
•The report
•Markets
•Rural povertyeradication Most of the poor live in RURAL areas
The rural poor...
live in remote areas
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•Rural Poverty
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The rural poor...
cultivate dry and marginal lands
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The rural poor...
cannot read or write
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The rural poor...
have bigger families and high mortality
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•Rural Poverty
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The rural poor...
suffer from hunger and disease
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The rural poor...
have few opportunities off the land
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Rainfed farmers
PastoralistsArtisanal Fishermen
Smallholder farmers
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•Rural Poverty
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Wage labourers/landless
Indigenous people/tribes
Female-headed households
Displaced people
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•Rural Poverty
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have less access to land, water, credit and social services
Female-headedhouseholds
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•Rural Poverty
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Women and children
are among the poorest of the poor
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900 million of the extreme poor live and work in rural areas!
Today 1.2 billion live in extreme poverty
Asia
sub-Saharan Africa
Latin America &Caribbean
67 %22 %
8 %3 %
Near East & North Africa
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The rate of poverty reduction is less than a third of what is
needed to achieve the global target
It is six times too slow for sub-Saharan Africa
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•Rural Poverty
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ODA: Agriculture, forestry and fishery1988-1998
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The proportion of ODA going to agriculture fell from about 20% in the late 1980s
to about 12% today
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Agriculture is...
important for the poor
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IFAD’s Rural Poverty Report 2001IFAD’s Rural Poverty Report 2001emphasises four critical aspects for emphasises four critical aspects for
reducing povertyreducing poverty
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Technology
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ASSETS...
land ownership is an incentive to invest
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ASSETS...
water is vital to most agricultural production
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TECHNOLOGY...
needs to work for the rural poor
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MARKETS...
poor get better prices with improved market access
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INSTITUTIONS...
empowerment
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Where will these children be in 2015?
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