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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetUnlocking rural finance for inclusive agrifood systems 2023
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No results found.The provision of financial services to rural smallholder households, including savings, credit, insurance and payments, remains among the most difficult challenges in finance and development. Despite progress in the extension of these services to rural areas, rural finance ecosystems in low- and middle-income countries remain fragmented due to high transaction costs associated with the uneven and disperse distribution of populations, inadequate infrastructures and unexpected threats to agricultural productivity. As a result, small-scale actors and most marginalized groups – such as women and youth – remain largely excluded from access to finance and investment. Developing and scaling up inclusive financial solutions is key to improve the livelihoods and resilience of the most vulnerable people, reduce inequalities and poverty, end food insecurity and malnutrition, and promote the sustainable use of natural resources in order to build sustainable and inclusive agrifood systems that leave no one behind. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetExpanding access to social protection for rural populations 2023
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No results found.Social protection is a human right, a commitment in the SDGs and it is an effective policy instrument to address the multiple crises we currently face like a changing climate, conflict and their links with poverty, hunger and inequality. While progress has been made in expanding access to social protection, there are still massive gaps in coverage. This is especially worrying in rural areas where there is a concentration of poor and vulnerable people with limited access to financial and social services, and informal employment is widespread. Consequently, poor and vulnerable rural households face colossal challenges in beneficially participating in economic opportunities, such as those in agrifood systems. Without access to adequate and comprehensive social protection, rural populations risk being left behind, blocking progress on reducing poverty and inequality. -
Book (stand-alone)Marginal lands: potential for agricultural development, food security and poverty reduction 2022
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No results found.Globally, marginal lands make up about 21 percent (2.74 billion ha) of the total land (13.5 billion ha) area. However, about 1 558 million ha of these lands are used for agriculture, out of which about 224 to 300 million ha is classified as agriculturally marginal areas. From a demographic perspective, nearly 1.75 billion people (38 percent of global rural populations) live on remote less favoured and marginal agricultural areas and nearly 1.6 (out of 1.75) billion live in developing countries. From a socioeconomic perspective food insecurity, and poverty remain predominately rural, with nearly 10 percent of the world’s population or 734 million people living on less than USD 1.90 a day (2015 est.) and more than 820 million people (11 percent of the global population) remain undernourished, the majority of whom live in marginal areas of the low-income countries. A vast majority of the population depending on agriculture in marginal environments is continued to be highly vulnerable to multiple stresses and off track to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal of achieving ending poverty in all its forms (SDG1) and zero hunger (SDG2) by 2030. The COVID-19 pandemic has already exacerbated the vulnerabilities and inadequacies of agri-food systems including all the activities and processes affecting the production, processing, distribution and consumption of food and pushed an additional 83 to 132 million people into food insecurity. The setback throws into further doubt the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 2 (Zero Hunger) especially in marginal environments. In post COVID era, there is, a strong need to boost agricultural production by improving productivity of agriculture and food production for achieving food security and ending poverty especially in the marginal areas. This paper presents the potential of marginal lands for food security and poverty reduction through sustainable and regenerative agriculture. It presents the outcome of a systematic review on the multidimensional and complex nature of marginality and the factors that drive or characterize marginality in the broader context. The aim of the paper is to draw a working definition for agricultural environments that are considered as marginal in the context of a given agricultural economy and use it to identify the extent of global and regional marginal areas and its hotspots. Moreover, the paper attempts to explore the combinations of underlying causes of agricultural marginality and proximate factors that correlate with marginality as well as opportunities and barriers faced by the rural poor living
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