Poverty is predominantly rural.

Rural Women and Poverty

Goal 1 Poverty Eradication Rural Development Engage and empower people living in poverty and rural areas.

The Rural Poverty Reduction Strategy (Guate Solidaria Rural), which is part of the Guate Solidaria component, is the principal mechanism for combating poverty.

The lesson was clear attend to rural poverty.

Poverty still exists in rural and urban areas.

Recognizing the critical role and contribution of rural women in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty,

Recognizing the critical role and contribution of rural women in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty,

Poverty is most widespread in rural areas, which usually also suffered most during the war. A risk of falling into poverty in Republika Srpska is much higher in rural

Extreme poverty is almost synonymous with extreme isolation, especially rural isolation.

Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) also primarily serves the rural communities.

Recognizing the critical role and contribution of rural women, including indigenous women, in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty,

Recognizing the critical role and contribution of rural women, including indigenous women, in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty,

Illicit cultivation continues to be intricately related to poverty in rural areas.

Rural poverty remains a significant problem, especially in the LDCs and South Asian subregion, with close to 500 million rural poor.

Both overall poverty and extreme poverty are concentrated in rural areas, which are home to 76 per cent of the poor population.

Insufficient attention to rural development continues to undermine poverty reduction efforts in the subregion.

Given that 70 per cent of people in extreme poverty live in rural areas, renewed focus should be placed on rural and agricultural development.

The national poverty gap, the average person's level of consumption below the poverty line, is 29 per cent, while the depth of poverty is concentrated in the rural areas.

Table 18 Poverty structure of households in rural areas, by sex of head of household

The Committee welcomes the adoption of the China Rural Communities Poverty Relief Programme (2001 2010).

The regional office in Fukuoka, Japan, supported the Poverty Alleviation through Rural Urban Linkages initiative in Indonesia and the Rural Urban Partnership Programme in Nepal.

The Vietnamese Government attaches great importance to rural infrastructure, which is seen as a decisive factor for socio economic development and poverty reduction in rural areas.

Poverty was still the biggest concern confronting most Filipinos, and it affected rural women in particular.

Promoting an integrated approach to rural development in developing countries for poverty eradication and sustainable development

Regarding the process of decentralization, which made the local authorities responsible for poverty reduction at the grass roots, including among rural women, she asked what system was in place to ensure that rural women actually benefited from poverty reduction policies.

Expanding rural water supply, together with sanitation, must be considered as integral to broader poverty reduction efforts.

ESCAP Committee on Socio economic Measures to Alleviate Poverty in Rural Urban Areas, 3rd session, December 2000.

The Committee expresses its concern at the high and increasing number of children living in poverty and extreme poverty in the State party, especially in rural areas.

The incidence of poverty is higher in rural than in urban areas (54 per cent of rural and 30 per cent of urban households can be classified as poor).

Investment in employment intensive sectors, such as agriculture, was needed in order to reduce rural poverty and marginalization.

The key to reducing poverty was sustainable development strategies that included investment in rural areas and social services.

The poverty which particularly affects rural areas has a negative impact on the sustainable management of natural resources.

Please provide information on rural women living in poverty, and on the impact of poverty alleviation projects carried out by the Government, especially of projects targeted at women.

The promotion of decentralized industrial development patterns can stem from rural urban migration, bring employment opportunities to rural areas, reduce regional income disparities, and thus fight poverty at its very source.

In order to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, it is essential that poverty reduction interventions focus on the rural poor and that significant investments be made in rural and agricultural development.

The Committee urges the State party to extend non contributory social assistance to the rural areas that are presently not covered, as a means to combat poverty among the rural populations.

It's the dependence on farm subsidies and under performing schools and higher poverty rates in rural areas than in urban.

Improvements in rural infrastructure, such as affordable and safe water, sanitation and energy near the home and accessible and affordable modes of transport could dramatically improve the time poverty of rural women.3

According to the latest available data, the incidence of acute poverty is highest among the rural population (32 per cent), while acute poverty in urban areas was 9 per cent in 2004.

Groups under the poverty line are most often children, persons with a low education level, the elderly and the rural population.

To finance NGO developed projects aimed at poverty alleviation and improvement in the living conditions of poor rural and urban dwellers

10 Household food security implications for policy and action for rural poverty alleviation and nutrition , International Fund for Agricultural Development, 1996.

Unfortunately, that affected primarily women, especially in rural areas, and accordingly one could speak of a phenomenon of feminization of poverty.

Three quarters of the world s poor live in rural areas, where agricultural workers suffer the highest incidence of poverty, largely owing to low productivity, seasonal unemployment, and the low wages paid by most rural employers.