Recursos

El Informe sobre el desarrollo rural 2021 se centra en los medios de vida rurales en el contexto de la transformación de los sistemas alimentarios. El informe reclama unos medios de vida equitativos para la población rural, que es la protagonista de la transformación de los sistemas alimentarios, y destaca la necesidad de mejorar la nutrición y proteger el medio ambiente.

El presente informe se funda en una base considerable de datos empíricos a partir de la cual se intenta proporcionar el tipo de análisis que pueda orientar la concepción de políticas, programas e inversiones tendientes a fomentar una transformación rural inclusiva de los jóvenes. En él se examinan quiénes son los jóvenes del medio rural, dónde viven y los múltiples obstáculos a los que se enfrentan en su pasaje de la dependencia a la independencia.

Despite much progress – extreme poverty has been halved since the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were adopted in 1990 – there are still 767 million extremely poor people in the world, and more than 75 per cent of them live in the rural areas of developing countries. Population increases and rising incomes are creating a growing demand for food, which creates both opportunities and challenges for people working in rural areas, including in smallholder agriculture and in the non-farm economy. Rising agricultural productivity, more jobs off the farm and migration are reshaping rural lives, but so too are climate change, environmental degradation, conflict and forced displacement.

IFAD’s experience in developing countries over the past 40 years clearly shows that investing in rural people leads to poverty reduction and economic growth that go beyond agriculture and rural areas. IFAD’s 2016 Rural Development Report presented evidence that inclusive and sustainable rural transformation is fundamental to economic and social growth, and to poverty reduction at the national level.

The 2016 Rural Development Report focuses on inclusive rural transformation as a central element of the global efforts to eliminate poverty and hunger, and build inclusive and sustainable societies for all. It analyses global, regional and national pathways of rural transformation, and suggests four categories into which most countries and regions fall, each with distinct objectives for rural development strategies to promote inclusive rural transformation: to adapt, to amplify, to accelerate, and a combination of them.