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Product Description The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is an independent body set up in 1978 to promote the increase of food production in the poorest food deficit countries. The Rural Poverty Report reassesses the nature and causes of world wide rural poverty and outlines policiesdesigned to promote its alleviation. Review `well-written' PDR 27 (1)`the IFAD document seems particularly designed to remedy a perceived urban bias in poverty reduction' PDR 27 (1)`interesting... strongly recommend [ed] for every agricultural economist and economist interested in development and poverty.' European Review of Agricultural Economics, vol.28, no.3