strategy
Increasing food production to reduce rural poverty
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:
Alleviating rural povertyIncreasing global food productionIncreasing sustainable food productionImproving food production in developing countries Constrains:
Stagnating agricultural production Constrained by:
Neglecting agricultural and rural life Facilitates:
Reducing rural unemploymentImproving employment of rural womenAdvancing integrated rural development Facilitated by:
Serving rural womenTraining in rural developmentUpgrading local food productionAccelerating rural land productionPromoting productive rural employmentImproving access of rural poor to creditApplying technologies for improved food production Problems:
Decline in food productionDisadvantages of improved food production in developing countries
Discrimination against rural women
Disruptive migration of rural population to cities
Insufficient returns from farming
Limited water for farming
Neglect of agricultural and rural life
Rural poverty
Rural underdevelopment
Rural unemployment
Subsistence agricultural income level in rural communities
Subsistence-level malnutrition
Unchecked poverty cycle
Unsustainable rural development
Subjects:
DisadvantagedRuralFoodProduction Type Classification:
D: Detailed strategies