Increasing food production to reduce rural poverty

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.

1. No social reorganization is possible where people are hungry.

1. Increasing sustainable food production
2. Increasing global food production
3. Improving food production in developing countries
4. Alleviating rural poverty

1. Reducing rural unemployment
2. Improving employment of rural women
3. Advancing integrated rural development

1. Upgrading local food production
2. Training in rural development
3. Serving rural women
4. Promoting productive rural employment
5. Improving access of rural poor to credit
6. Applying technologies for improved food production
7. Accelerating rural land production

1. Stagnating agricultural production

1. Neglecting agricultural and rural life

1. Improving food aid policies and programmes

1. Unsustainable rural development
2. Unchecked poverty cycle
3. Subsistence-level malnutrition
4. Subsistence agricultural income level in rural communities
5. Rural unemployment
6. Rural underdevelopment
7. Rural poverty
8. Neglect of agricultural and rural life
9. Lack of water for agriculture
10. Insufficient returns from farming
11. Disruptive rural to urban migration
12. Discrimination against rural women
13. Disadvantages of mechanized food production in developing countries
14. Decline in food production

1. Unproductivity
2. Underproduction
3. Poverty
4. Overproduction