A significant part of the efforts to meet those commitments should be focused in the rural areas of the developing world where 70% of the world's extremely poor people live, including most of the hungry. Improving rural people's livelihoods and smallholders' capacities is a central element in ending hunger, achieving food security and improved nutrition, and promoting sustainable agriculture. In fact, over recent decades, we've seen the socioeconomic benefits of, for example, mobile telephony in improving the lives of many poor rural people.