IFAD - Rural Poverty Report 2011
IFAD has launched its Rural Poverty Report 2011, entitled “New realities, new challenges: new opportunities for tomorrow’s generation,” which provides a comprehensive look at rural poverty, its global consequences and the prospects for eradicating it. Since the release of the last Rural Poverty Report in 2001, more than 350 million rural people have lifted themselves out of extreme poverty. Yet the 2010 report notes that global poverty remains a massive and predominantly rural phenomenon – with 70% of the developing world’s 1.4 billion extremely poor people living in rural areas, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. (...)
The article:
http://www.un-ngls.org/spip.php?article3165
The Report:
http://www.ifad.org/rpr2011/
Basic information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fund_for_Agricultural_Development
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