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We mobilise people and resources to create, curate, make sense of and use knowledge to inform policymaking across Europe.

  • Publication | 2017
Annual report 2016
Global Food and Nutrition Security

Behind the headlines of famine, conflict and forced migration, there is some good news: the number of poor people in the world today is falling. In 1990, 1.85 billion children, women and men were extremely poor; by 2013, that number was down to 767 million. However, as the numbers fall, the proportion of poor people living in rural areas is rising: today a huge 80% of extremely poor people call rural areas home. These are the people in danger of being left behind.