Insufficient returns from farming

According to a 1995 report, fish catch declines in specific fishing grounds threatened the livelihoods of as many as 200 million people who depended on fish as a source of income.

1. Unproductive subsistence agriculture
2. Disincentives against farming
3. Discouraging conditions for small business

1. Insufficient cash crops
2. Delayed profits

1. Rural unemployment
2. Risk of capital investment
3. Personal debt
4. Inadequate agricultural capital
5. Agricultural fraud

1. Unsustainable exploitation of fish resources
2. Uneconomical small farms
3. Undue control of prices by intermediaries
4. Underdevelopment of fishing industry
5. Unavailability of farming land
6. Prohibitive costs of farming
7. Middleman control of rural marketing
8. Loss of fish nurseries
9. Limited local markets for goods and services
10. Inappropriate cash crop policy
11. Inadequate management skills in rural communities
12. Cultural traditions blocking business profit
13. Agricultural risks
14. Agricultural mismanagement

1. Lack of rural industrialization
2. Counterproductive eco-labelling

1. Increasing food production to reduce rural poverty