http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2005/107782/index.html Spurring economic growth through agricultural investment Global Donor Platform works to improve aid effectiveness and ensure agriculture's key role in hunger fight 20 September 2005, Rome -- Michael Wales, Principal Adviser of FAO's Investment Centre, explains why investment in rural areas is key to tackling poverty and talks about one initiative that is working to ensure that agriculture is front and centre on the poverty alleviation agenda. FAO continues to drive home the message that more funds must be directed towards agriculture and rural development if countries are to meet the first Millennium Development Goal of halving by 2015 the number of people living in extreme poverty and suffering from hunger. Why is the focus on rural areas so important? 联合国粮农组织投资中心(FAO Investment Centre)的首席顾问Michael Wales日前在专访 中表示，增加农业投资将有利於消弭贫穷及促进经济成长。 Around 75 percent of the world's poor live in rural areas. So tackling poverty means addressing the problems that these poor rural populations face. The irony is that the majority of these people are farmers, or depend on agriculture-related activities for their incomes, yet they do not produce or earn enough to meet their basic needs. 他表示，全球约有75%的贫穷人口居住於乡村地区，而这些人口又都以农业为生，因此对 抗贫穷意味着需解决乡村地区的农业投资问题。 Growth is essential to alleviate poverty and growth means investment, particularly in agriculture. What, if any, concrete steps are being taken by the international community in this regard? One initiative dealing with this issue is the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development, which was created around three years ago to bring together donor organizations, and particularly those parts of donor organizations dealing with agriculture and rural development, with the idea of undertaking advocacy work in the development community on the crucial role agriculture plays in poverty alleviation. Membership includes most of the major international financing institutions and bilateral development agencies. 事实上，增加农业投资的一个重要方式在於加强「乡村发展全球援助者平台」的功能，此 一机构约於三年前成立，其设立目的在於协调并促进各个援助机构间之合作关系与执行方 式，以促进农业及乡村地区的发展。 --

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