Certainly, without an agreed agenda for further talks there will be little progress in opening the markets of industrialised countries to exports from developing countries in the immediate future, or ending the subsidised dumping of northern agricultural surpluses on poor countries, destroying the livelihood of local farmers.

ECONOMIST: Letters

Four decades after its establishment, SERVOL continues to implement a number of community-based development and educational projects primarily because the socio-economic problems that led to its formation, such as poverty, sharp socio-economic inequalities, youth criminality or gang violence and drug abuse as well as the disintegration of family structures, high illiteracy rates among and lack of livelihood and educational opportunities for the poor majority, remain prevalent in the country today.

UNESCO: Adolescent Development Programme

Higher prices, if sustained, can help poor households in the countryside, many of whom depend on agriculture for their livelihood.

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