It is estimated that just under 1 billion people live in extreme poverty worldwide (i.e. on less than USD 1.25 per day - at PPP-adjusted, 2005 prices). Three-quarters of them live in rural areas (UNDP, 2015), and two-thirds earn their living from agriculture (Olinto et al., These estimates of the rural-urban disparity may be somewhat low. Indicators of multidimensional poverty - a measure that utilises more inclusive dimensions of acute poverty in health, education and living standards - put the rural-urban poverty divide as high as 85% (Alkire et al.,