The World Bank's World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development says that more needs to be spent on agriculture if international goals of halving extreme poverty and hunger by 2015 are to be realized. Given that 75 percent of the world's poor live in rural areas and depend heavily on agriculture for their livelihoods, the World Bank is advocating for scaled-up financing for the sector and a new agriculture-for-development agenda that can benefit an estimated 900 million rural people who live on less than $1 a day.
Derek Byerlee, co-director author of the report, will be available to take your questions on how agriculture can offer pathways out of poverty at 10 a.m. (Washington DC time) on December 18. You can submit your questions in advance.
For more information on the report, please visit www.worldbank.org/wdr2008
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December 17, 2007
Co-author of World Development Report to field online questions on agriculture
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