b'Encourages Member States, international organizations, the private sector and other partners to develop programmes to foster the creation of decent work in rural areas and increase the investment in agricultural and related off-farm activities, especially for young people, including through economic diversification in rurual areas, the promotion of sustainable agrifood systems and a balanced territorial approach, along a continuum that include intermediate settlements and cities nested in the midst of agricultural zones, with varying levels of agglomeration as a key to reducing rural poverty and persistent inequalities between urban, peri-urban and rural areas; (A/78/238,para70) '