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RURAL POVERTY REPORT 2011: NEW REALITIES, NEW CHALLENGES: NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR TOMORROW'S GENERATION
subjects: Education and Training Planning Tools
levels and types of education: Higher education, Life long learning, Tertiary education | IFAD - INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT _
IFAD - INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT, ROME, 2010 | | _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ |  English
| There are today approximately one billion poor rural people in the world. Yet
there are good reasons for hope that rural poverty can be reduced substantially, if
new opportunities for rural growth are nurtured, and the risk environment
improved. This report identifies an agenda for action around a broad approach to
rural growth, which needs to be appropriated and adapted to different countries’
needs and local contexts. However, the report also makes it clear that implementing
this agenda requires ‘joined-up’ government across different ministries, and a
breaking down of some traditional distinctions between social and economic
policies and programmes. It also requires a collective effort, including new
partnerships and accountabilities, and new ways of working between governments,
the private sector, civil society and rural people’s organizations, with the
international development community playing a supporting or facilitating role as
needed. If all of these stakeholders want it enough, rural poverty can be substantially
reduced. What is at stake is not only improving the present for one billion rural
people and the prospects for food security for all, but also the rural world and the
opportunities within it that tomorrow’s rural generation will inherit.
This report is of special interest to rural development specialists and planners. | | _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ | Related links
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