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OMAHA (DTN) -- Efforts to achieve the Millennium Development = Goal of=20 slashing world hunger and poverty in half by 2015 received a new = boost=20 today from an online educational tool kit targeting rural people, = launched=20 by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). =

For the first time, a wide range of teaching and learning tools = for the=20 education of rural people is available on the Internet, providing=20 governments, international and non-governmental organizations = (NGOs),=20 rural school teachers, extension agents and the public at large = with the=20 latest knowledge on how to help rural communities better their=20 livelihoods.

"The tool kit will help policy-makers to implement education = programmes=20 and improve the quality level of education in rural areas," said = Lavinia=20 Gasperini, an FAO expert who works in close collaboration with the = UN=20 Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and = other=20 organizations on the Education for Rural People initiative, = launched at=20 the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002 in = Johannesburg.

"You cannot promote agriculture if you fail to educate rural = people.=20 The first Millennium Development Goal -- reducing hunger and = poverty --=20 will not be achieved unless we give a higher priority to improving = education in rural areas, where the majority of the people live," = she=20 added.

Hunger, malnutrition and food insecurity reduce school = attendance and=20 erode cognitive abilities. Conversely, illiteracy and lack of = education=20 reduce earning capacity and contribute to hunger and poverty. = Education=20 plays a fundamental role in improving the food security, incomes = and=20 productivity of rural people. It also helps to promote new = technologies,=20 as literate people are more inclined to adopt these technologies = and to=20 protect their environment.

The tool kit is a valuable resource for all those whose daily = work=20 consists of training the rural poor in food and nutrition, local = knowledge=20 systems, agrobiodiversity, food quality and safety, rural finance, = marketing, forestry, fisheries, communication and other related = issues.=20

According to latest estimates, "in the so-called global = village, about=20 130 million children, the majority of whom are rural, do not have = a pencil=20 or a pen, nor a book, nor a teacher, and do not go to school," Ms=20 Gasperini said. These children will become illiterate adults who = will join=20 the 880 million illiterates in the world, the majority of whom are = rural=20 adults.



 
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