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This paper analyses the role of migration in promoting rural livelihoods and discusses how migration interacts with transformative economic processes. Focusing on migration out of rural areas, it examines the impacts of migration on rural livelihoods and challenges the perspective that sees rural outmigration as a failure of rural development. 

This paper is a guide to current debates about agricultural development. It analyses the changes in development approaches and thinking in recent decades and explores today's critical issues in agricultural and rural development policy. With the main focus on Africa, the paper also includes insights from Asia and Latin America.

Prendre en compte les priorités des petits exploitants en matière d’adaptation

Since its founding, IFAD has focused on enabling smallholder farmers to increase agricultural production and productivity as a means for reducing poverty.

However, experience shows that increased productivity and incomes do not automatically translate into improved nutritional status of poor rural people, especially women, young people and children. 

La pêche et l'aquaculture apportent une contribution importante à la sécurité alimentaire et aux moyens de subsistance, tant à l'échelle des ménages qu'au niveau local, national et mondial. Toutefois, si la production aquacole se développe rapidement à l'échelle planétaire, en particulier en Asie et en Afrique, nombre de pêches à travers le monde sont en grand danger du fait des pressions anthropiques, notamment la surexploitation, la pollution et la modification des habitats.