·        In low-income countries, investing in agriculture has a greater impact on reducing poverty than investing in other sectors, as it offers the most direct route for rural people to benefit from their main assets: land and labour. Investment in small-scale family farming and in the livelihoods of fishers, forest dwellers and herders, is an engine for sustainable poverty reduction.

·        However, promoting agriculture is not enough. Key policy approaches to end poverty also include boosting social policies, promoting coherence between agriculture and social protection; strengthening the capacity of producer organizations and rural institutions; and increasing investment in rural infrastructure, research and services to create new income generating opportunities in the off-farm sector for the rural poor.

·        Integrate policies to reduce rural poverty: it is crucial to provide policy support across government ministries, including Ministries of agriculture, public infrastructure and services, social affairs, employment, health, education, finance, planning and environment.

·        Globally, 60% of employed women work in the agricultural sector. Policies to achieve rural poverty reduction must be gender-equitable and gender-sensitive and strengthen rural women’s economic empowerment.

·        Leave no one behind: FAO helps family farmers, small fishers, forest dwellers, pastoralists, rural women and youth, and indigenous peoples make a living through agriculture.