Women planting rice in rural Bangladesh, one of the world's poorest countries. Photo by Artu Manninen
The President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will discuss the challenge of overcoming rural poverty in the Asia-Pacific region during a lecture at ANU today. Mr Kanayo F Nwanze will argue that the recent dramatic progress in reducing rural poverty in East Asia can be replicated in other areas of the region if the right investments in agriculture are made. The head of the United Nation's leading rural development agency talk is based on findings from IFAD's recently released Rural Poverty Report 2011. The report found more than 350 million rural people, mostly in China and Southeast Asia, had been lifted out of extreme poverty. However rural areas are still home to 70 per cent of the developing world's 1.4 billion people classified as extremely poor, with South Asia's 500 million rural poor being the highest for any sub-region in the world. WHAT: Key messages from IRAD's Rural Poverty Report 2011 WHEN: 3-4.30pm, Tuesday 5 April 2011 WHERE: Seminar Room 2, Hedley Bull Centre, Garran Road, ANU
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