Tackling rural poverty, together

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During a workshop to develop a Joint Donor Rural Concept (JDRC) in April 2006, members of the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development expressed the need to reach a consensus on current issues of global significance to agriculture and rural development. During the workshop, they identified a number of areas of agreement. These areas expand the Platform’s mission statement and are elabora- ted herein under the Consensus Pyramid.

Platform members also submitted their ideas for 'hot topics', which were then collated and prioritised accordingly. These are included here in order to support inter-agency knowledge-sharing and advocacy with a view to improving donor effectiveness in harmonising agricultural and rural development. No single agency holds all the knowledge about each topic, but through raising the issues together and sharing experiences and knowledge, there can be a greater collective effort to reduce rural poverty. While the JDRC focuses more on the process of agricultural and rural development delivery, 'Hot Topics' focuses more on the content.