Tackling rural poverty, together

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Panel discussion paper IFAD Governing Council – Twenty-Eighth Session, 16-17 February 2005

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the most broadly supported, comprehensive and specific poverty-reduction targets the world has ever established, and the year 2005 is critical in that there are only ten years left to achieve these goals. Results so far have been mixed: significant achievements in some parts of the world, particularly in eastern Asia, but very limited achievements in others, where vulnerability to natural and man-made disasters and the silent tsunami of hunger and disease continue to claim millions of lives every year.

Table of contents:

1. The Millennium Development Goals and Targets
2. The Millennium Development Goals: analysis and trends
3. The rural dimension of poverty and the centrality of pro-poor agricultural growthv More investment and pro-poor policy frameworks
4. The way forward and IFAD’s role