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On 6 December a number of media outlets interviewed Kanayo F. Nwanze, IFAD President and Edward Heinemann, Rural Poverty Report team leader. Watch these interviews:

BBC

CNN

Al-Jazeera

Reuters

The launch of the Rural Poverty Report 2011 took place at the opening of a major international conference on food security convened by Chatham House in London for 6-7 December, 2010.

The report contains updated estimates by IFAD regarding how many rural poor people there are in the developing world, poverty rates in rural areas, and the percentage of poor people residing in rural areas.

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