80% of the world's extreme poor live in rural areas and rely on agriculture. How can we reduce rural poverty and build resilient communities? 🎙️Watch @FAO's podcast to learn how #SocialProtection can improve rural livelihoods➡️https://bit.ly/4xVZ4RD #WorldRuralDevelopmentDay
"When basically every household is a small business, right? The decisions that you make, you can't separate, let's say the social decisions from the economic decisions, right? Because when you decide to send your child to school, you're deciding, well, do I send my child to school or do I invest a bit more in the family farm with the limited cash that I have? That's why social protection is so important because it allows those decisions to be separated and it allows families to invest in their children, right? As well as invest in their production, no?"
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80% of the world's extreme poor live in rural areas and rely on agriculture. How can we reduce rural poverty and build resilient communities? 🎙️Watch @FAO's podcast to learn how #SocialProtection can improve rural livelihoods➡️https://bit.ly/4xVZ4RD #WorldRuralDevelopmentDay