
Any plan for recovery from the global financial crisis must include continued commitments to agricultural and rural development.
Any plan for recovery from the global financial crisis must include continued commitments to agricultural and rural development. L’Aquila, with its $20 billion, three-year commitment to food security, was a hopeful and necessary starting point.
The 1.4 billion people who live in or on the verge of extreme poverty are all in the developing world. A majority of those individuals (75 percent) live on farms and in rural towns and are dependent on agriculture for food, employment and income. More than 1 billion children and families go to bed hungry every night, and the ongoing economic disaster threatens to increase the number of people living below the poverty line by 46 million worldwide. The World Development Report 2008: Agriculture and Development [1]issued by the World Bank argued convincingly that investments in agriculture and rural development are the best means of realizing broad-based economic growth.
Any commitments to agricultural and rural development must include a global food security strategy that:
Follow InterAction members work at the Pittsburgh 2009 G20 Summit. [2]
Links:
[1] http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/EXTWDRS/EXTWDR2008/0,,menuPK:2795178~pagePK:64167702~piPK:64167676~theSitePK:2795143,00.html
[2] http://www.interaction.org/pittsburgh-g20-summit