2016
Publisher: 
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO
Language:
English

Combatting Poverty and Hunger by Bringing together Agriculture and Social Protection

Despite recent progress, still today 1 billion people are poor and around 800 million are hungry. Extreme poverty is concentrated in rural areas, and the rural poor largely rely on agriculture. In sub-Saharan Africa 66% of the income of poor small family farmers comes from agriculture.