http://www.english.hadhramaut.info Yemen focuses on food security and poverty reduction, says minister [The Source: rome/hadhramaut.info/sabanews.net - 19/02/2010] Food security and reducing poverty have become of the Yemeni government's priorities within the fourth five-year economic and social plan for 2011-2015, Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation said on Thursday. Mansour al-Hawshabi said during the 33rd session of the Governing Council, IFAD’s annual meeting, the strategy was focused on sustainability of natural resources, increasing agricultural production and incomes of rural people and encouraging agricultural investment.Improving agricultural investment climate will definitely lead to reducing poverty and creating more jobs, securing food and improving livelihoods of rural people and limit their migration into cities, he said.He said such a meeting was important to enable rural people to overcome poverty through developing the agricultural sector and encouraging investment in it.The meeting started on Wednesday  in Rome with climate change, food security and smallholder agriculture, adapting management of water resources to climate change in Near East, North Africa and Central and Eastern Europe high on the agenda. The meeting also highlighted the IFAD rural poverty report 2010 and other related issues.