Eradicating rural poverty to implement the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
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perspective and consists of mutually reinforcing policies and programmes, and which
should be balanced, targeted, situation specific and locally owned, include local
synergies and initiatives and be responsive to the needs of rural populations,
Recalling that nearly 80 per cent of the extreme poor live in rural areas and work
in agriculture, and that devoting resources to the development of rural areas and
sustainable agriculture and supporting smallholder farmers, especially women
farmers, is key to ending poverty in all its forms and dimensions, by, inter alia,
improving the welfare of farmers,
Expressing its concern that the extreme poor have limited access to productive
resources, basic health, education and social protection services, basic infr astructure
such as roads, water and electricity, and off-farm employment opportunities, and are
susceptible to the impacts of natural disasters, especially weather-related hazards,
including the El Niño phenomenon, and the adverse effects of climate change , and
that rural women and girls fare far worse on most development indicators,
Emphasizing the importance of enhancing global support for national work on
rural development policies and strategies,
1.
Reaffirms that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions,
including extreme poverty, for all people everywhere, is the greatest global challenge
and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, as well as an
overarching objective of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 5 of which
the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing
for Development 6 is an integral part, supporting and complementing it;
2.
Welcomes the remarkable progress made since 1990, which has lifted over
1.1 billion people out of extreme poverty, but also expresses its deep concern that the
progress in reducing poverty remains uneven, with 1.4 6 billion people still living in
multidimensional poverty, and that this number continues to be significant and
unacceptably high, whereas the levels of inequality in income, wealth and
opportunities remain high or are increasing in a number of countries, and the
non-income dimensions of poverty and deprivation, such as access to quality
education or basic health services, and relative poverty remain major concerns;
3.
Recognizes the importance of promoting socioeconomic development in
rural areas as an effective strategy at the global level for the eradication of poverty,
including extreme poverty, and therefore underlines the importance of shaping a rural
poverty eradication pattern with the concerted efforts of the whole of society to
promote socioeconomic development in rural areas;
4.
Also recognizes the critical role and contribution of rural women,
including smallholders and women farmers, and indigenous women and women in
local communities, and their traditional knowledge in enhancing agricultural and rural
development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty;
5.
Stresses the importance of taking targeted measures to eradicate poverty
in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, by formulating rural
development strategies with clear poverty eradication goals, strengthe ning national
statistical capacity and monitoring systems and implementing nationally appropriate
social protection systems and measures for all;
6.
Recognizes the importance of employment for pro-poor growth in rural
areas, and encourages the United Nations system and development partners to assist
countries, upon their request, in mainstreaming employment into investment policy
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