Evidence shows that Cameroon's poverty is mainly a rural phenomenon. The rural sector is
agricultural based activities. The paper analyses the characteristics of rural poverty. It brings out
the female poverty and shows the urban and rural linkages based on the 1996 ECAM data. To
eradicate poverty, the paper strongly articulates greater investment, increase in agriculture and
agricultural research particularly in order to increase sharply agricultural productivity and value
added in agricultural production and in changing the rural marginal rate of transformation