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Adapting to Climate Change in Smallholder Agriculture

Most of the world’s poor and hungry are rural people who earn meagre livings from agriculture. In 2010, some 900 millions of the estimated 1.2 billion extremely poor lived in rural areas. About 750 million of them worked in agriculture, usually as smallholder family farmers (Olinto et al., 2013). While 200 million rural poor may migrate to towns and cities over the next 15 years, most will remain in the countryside. In that period, the rural population in less developed regions is projected to increase slightly (UN-DESA, 2012), and an estimated 700 million rural people would be living in poverty. Without concerted action to improve rural livelihoods, the eradication of poverty by 2030 will be impossible.

Title of publication: The State of Food and Agriculture
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ISSN: 978-92-5-109374-0
Page range: 43-66
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Publisher: FAO
Section/Chapter: 3
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Edition: 2016
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Organization: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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Year: 2016
ISBN: 978-92-5-109374-0
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Type: Report part
Content language: English
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