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Increasing food production to reduce rural poverty

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Context

Apart from providing more food for people, increased food production may be the primary means of combating rural poverty since the rural poor depend on agriculture for employment and income.

Claim

No social reorganization is possible where people are hungry.

Broader

Increasing sustainable food production
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Increasing global food production
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Improving food production in developing countries
Presentable
Alleviating rural poverty
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Constrains

Stagnating agricultural production
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Constrained by

Neglecting agricultural and rural life
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Facilitates

Advancing integrated rural development
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Reducing rural unemployment
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Improving employment of rural women
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Facilitated by

Improving access of rural poor to credit
Excellent
Upgrading local food production
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Serving rural women
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Training in rural development
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Promoting productive rural employment
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Applying technologies for improved food production
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Accelerating rural land production
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Related

Improving food aid policies and programmes
Presentable

Problem

Rural poverty
Excellent
Disruptive rural to urban migration
Excellent
Unsustainable rural development
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Unchecked poverty cycle
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Subsistence agricultural income level in rural communities
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Rural unemployment
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Rural underdevelopment
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Neglect of agricultural and rural life
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Discrimination against rural women
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Decline in food production
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Lack of water for agriculture
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Insufficient returns from farming
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Subsistence-level malnutrition
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Disadvantages of mechanized food production in developing countries
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Value

Unproductivity
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Underproduction
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Poverty
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Overproduction
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SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #2: Zero HungerSustainable Development Goal #10: Reduced InequalitySustainable Development Goal #12: Responsible Consumption and Production

Metadata

Database
Global strategies
Type
(D) Detailed strategies
Subject
Content quality
Yet to rate
 Yet to rate
Language
English
1A4N
J5686
DOCID
12056860
D7NID
194091
Editing link
Official link
https://encyclopedia.uia.org/strategy/increasing-food-production-reduce-rural-poverty
Last update
Sep 28, 2022