UN urges focus on rural development to lift millions out of poverty

United Nations, New York, February 2012 - A top United Nations official today committed to pull up to 90 million people out of poverty by 2015 and help small farmers and all those in rural areas to realize their potential in eliminating hunger and promoting development.

"Smallholder farmers can feed themselves and they can help feed the world," Kanayo F. Nwanze, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD ), said in his opening address to the agency's Governing Council.

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