1. Key messages

2. IFAD’s Rural Poverty Report 2001 2015 targets Assets Rural Poverty Technology Institutions The report Markets Rural poverty eradication Most of the poor live in RURAL areas

3. The rural poor... live in remote areas 2015 targets Assets Rural Poverty Technology Institutions The report Markets Rural poverty eradication

4. The rural poor... cultivate dry and marginal lands 2015 targets Assets Rural Poverty Technology Institutions The report Markets Rural poverty eradication

5. The rural poor... cannot read or write 2015 targets Assets Rural Poverty Technology Institutions The report Markets Rural poverty eradication

6. The rural poor... have bigger families and high mortality 2015 targets Assets Rural Poverty Technology Institutions The report Markets Rural poverty eradication

7. The rural poor... suffer from hunger and disease 2015 targets Assets Rural Poverty Technology Institutions The report Markets Rural poverty eradication

8. The rural poor... have few opportunities off the land 2015 targets Assets Rural Poverty Technology Institutions The report Markets Rural poverty eradication

9. Rainfed farmers Pastoralists Artisanal Fishermen Smallholder farmers 2015 targets Assets Rural Poverty Technology Institutions The report Markets Rural poverty eradication

10. Wage labourers/ landless Indigenous people/tribes Female-headed households Displaced people 2015 targets Assets Rural Poverty Technology Institutions The report Markets Rural poverty eradication

11. have less access to land, water, credit and social services Female-headed households 2015 targets Assets Rural Poverty Technology Institutions The report Markets Rural poverty eradication

12. Women and children are among the poorest of the poor 2015 targets Assets Rural Poverty Technology Institutions The report Markets Rural poverty eradication

13. 900 million of the extreme poor live and work in rural areas! Today 1.2 billion live in extreme poverty Asia sub-Saharan Africa Latin America & Caribbean 67 % 22 % 8 % 3 % Near East & North Africa 2015 targets Assets Rural Poverty Technology Institutions The report Markets Rural poverty eradication

14. The rate of poverty reduction is less than a third of what is needed to achieve the global target It is six times too slow for sub-Saharan Africa 2015 targets Assets Rural Poverty Technology Institutions The report Markets Rural poverty eradication

15. The proportion of ODA going to agriculture fell from about 20% in the late 1980s to about 12% today 2015 targets Assets Rural Poverty Technology Institutions The report Markets Rural poverty eradication

16. 2015 targets Assets Rural Poverty Technology Institutions The report Markets Rural poverty eradication Agriculture is... important for the poor

17. 2015 targets Assets Rural Poverty Technology Institutions The report Markets Rural poverty eradication IFAD’s Rural Poverty Report 2001 emphasises four critical aspects for reducing poverty Assets Markets Technology Institutions

18. ASSETS... land ownership is an incentive to invest 2015 targets Assets Rural Poverty Technology Institutions The report Markets Rural poverty eradication

19. ASSETS... water is vital to most agricultural production 2015 targets Assets Rural Poverty Technology Institutions The report Markets Rural poverty eradication

20. TECHNOLOGY... needs to work for the rural poor 2015 targets Assets Rural Poverty Technology Institutions The report Markets Rural poverty eradication

21. MARKETS... poor get better prices with improved market access 2015 targets Assets Rural Poverty Technology Institutions The report Markets Rural poverty eradication

22. INSTITUTIONS... empowerment 2015 targets Assets Rural Poverty Technology Institutions The report Markets Rural poverty eradication

23. Where will these children be in 2015? 2015 targets Assets Rural Poverty Technology Institutions The report Markets Rural poverty eradication