Dimension and determinants of rural poverty
· Economic crises since 1973.
· Environmental degradation and repeated drought.
· Women's position in society and a general lack of accounting for their needs.
· Lack of access to agricultural technologies, means, and methods.
· Structural adjustment programmes adopted in 1 989.
· Lack of training.
· Increasing sedentarism and urbanization has led to an exodus of men to the urban areas, leaving women to run households on increasingly marginal lands.
· Illiteracy and lack of access to formal education for children, especially girls. en, especially girls.