POVERTY ALLEVIATION 

In Sub-Saharan Africa most people live in rural areas. Most of the poor lives in the countryside. Therefore rural development is essential in poverty alleviation.

 

Agroforestry takes people from poverty and hunger to a situation of self-sustained food and fuel-wood production. When agroforestry becomes the general agricultural practise, economic decline and increasing poverty is turned into its opposite. Agroforestry starts an economic growth that alleviates poverty and hunger not only locally for the family, but also regionally and countrywide.  

 

Today many people are forced to move to cities due to rural poverty. Often to even worse poverty and misery in slum areas of big cities. Increased rural productivity through agroforestry enables more people to stay in rural areas, avoiding urbanisation in despair and, hence, reducing pressure on the cities. 

 

 

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