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Previously most of the income from coffee did not revert to the farmer but now it is he who
establishes the price.
Article 22: The Right to Development
1. All peoples shall have the right to their economic, social and cultural development with due regard to their
freedom and identity and in the equal enjoyment of the common heritage of mankind.
2. States shall have the duty, individually or collectively, to ensure the exercise of the right to development.
According to the data drawn from the recent CSLP Review, a survey carried out within the
households in 2006, the rate of poverty is estimated at 67% at the national level, of which 69% is in
the rural areas and 34% in the urban areas. These estimates are based on a poverty threshold per
equivalent adult of 627Fbu/day in the urban areas and of 525Fbu/day in the rural areas.
The results of this same survey provide an insight of the level of poverty prevailing in each of the
country’s Provinces thereby leading to a better knowledge of the priority regions requiring redefinition and the improved targeting of the programmes. The categorization of the Provinces
according to the enormity of the population strength living below the poverty threshold is indicated
in the following graph.
22.1. Poverty Index per Province in the 1998-2007 priority panel survey
Province
Rate of poverty
in 1998 (%)
Rate of poverty
in 2007 (%)
Progression of the
rate of poverty
Bururi
Cankuzo
Cibitoke
Gitega
Karusi
Kayanza
Kirundo
Muramvya
Muyinga
Ngozi
Rutana
Ruyigi
Sample average
49.4
50.0
71.1
90.2
76.9
63.2
63.6
52.5
77.2
55.6
81.8
96.2
68.8
30.4
52.3
57.8
81.2
76.9
72.6
78.2
61.6
48.1
86.7
70.5
90.4
67.8
-19.0
+2.3
-13.3
-9.0
0.0
+9.4
+14.6
+9.1
-29.1
+31.1
-12.3
-5.8
-1.0
A representative survey within 5,000 households in the rural areas carried out by the World Food
Programme, with the technical support of the ISTEEBU, made is possible to define the level of food