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Rural
Poverty and Natural Resources: Background |
The
availability and accessibility of natural resources remain
the major influences on the livelihoods of rural people. A
high proportion of any rural population is engaged in some
form of agriculture and the poor are often reliant on common
property resources. However, increasing demands on agriculture
and constraints to improvement are forcing many smallholders
out of farming altogether. At the same time, opportunities
available outside the agricultural sector are limited.
Read
more about the issues discussed in reports and papers from
the seminar held on 8 November 2001 in Edinburgh UK.
We'd
be very interested to hear your ideas
/ reflections following the seminar and these can
be shared via the Post-it
Board
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