 Thank you very much, Catherine. Thank you very much. I'd like to thank the IAEA. RSAID is delighted, as ever, with the opportunity we have to support this development series seminar and we're very glad to welcome President Nonzi here to talk to us about inequality. Poverty is a major issue, particularly in this year of 2015 when we're in the process of developing and agreeing the Sustainable Development Goals, and we know that at this stage that we will be agreeing on a goal number one, which will be about eradicating extreme poverty, probably by 2030. And I think in terms of inequality, we need to recognize that the experience since we agreed on the MDGs and indeed since the decades before is that equality is not a natural outcome of development processes. Actually somewhat on the contrary, as economies and states develop, people who are poor and who are marginalized from economic activity and marginalized from political power, the people who lack capital, lack access to productive assets, they do disproportionately badly out of the benefits from development. And I think we've seen where public policies, the experience over the last 15 years has showed us that where public policies fail to address these inherent disadvantages in the starting points which people have, if you fail to have active public policies in place to address people's difficulties in accessing the benefits of development, well then inequality will increase with levels of development. And I think we've seen that. We know that at aggregate level, MDG1 on reducing poverty by half has been reached at aggregate level globally. But we also know that that has actually come about because of very good performance in a relatively small number of fairly large countries. And there are many countries actually where progress hasn't been so good. And where those policies and actions by government haven't been in place and where you have had significant rates of economic growth, actually poverty hasn't reduced and inequality has increased. And I think that, when we think about it, at one level that increase in inequality that we're seeing with very high rates of global progress, I know we've slowed down in the last five years, but high rates of growth in the overall global economy, inequality increasing, it is something that is morally unacceptable, but it also really extracts a high price in terms of exclusion, marginalization and exploitation. And those kind of things, marginalization of people and their exclusion actually affects the sustainability of the economic growth that we have, but it also affects social cohesion, it's a driver of conflict and it's a threat to long-term sustainability. And as we go forward with the new set of goals, we really need to seriously address it. Inequality constrains the constructive and productive base, sorry, the economic and productive base of any society. It limits the spread of growth across sectors, it limits the spread of growth among people, less people are involved in the generation of wealth, less people have access to it. And that reduces both the rate of growth, how well it is sustained and the extent to which it reduces poverty. So inequality in itself is a huge problem. Gender-based discrimination and the inequality that comes out of that is perhaps the most pervasive and persistent form of inequality that there is. And it's particularly pernicious because people who are already extremely poor are further disadvantaged in their own households and in their own communities. And addressing that issue, actually addressing the inequality within poor communities and poor households, inequalities that women face is critical for addressing inequality on a wider scale and for addressing poverty. Just going back to the post-2015 agenda, the expectations are really high around it. And if we are setting ourselves a target for achieving the eradication of poverty within the next 15 years, that kind of the thinking is that it's kind of based on the reasonable progress. We've got halfway with the MDGs, so we'll make the rest of the way. But it doesn't work like that, because in effect the poverty has reduced in a relatively small number of countries. And those countries will not contribute to the further significant reductions in poverty because they've already addressed the issue in a very significant way. It really needs to be addressed in countries where inequality is actually getting worse. And the ability of those countries to reduce their inequalities and to address poverty is actually what's going to determine whether it is possible to get to a zero extreme poverty by 2030. So it's a transformation that's required in countries which have been doing pretty poorly up until now. That's what we need to address. Otherwise, you know, we talk about the unfinished business of the MDGs. Well, we don't want to be in 2030 with the unfinished business of the SDGs. And unless we do address this, we are likely to face that, to be faced with that context. To address inequality, it does, I've talked about public policies and actions. It requires decisions over public resources and policies at global, national and at local levels. And decisions are actually ones that would favor the interests of poor people over the interests of other people, favor vulnerable and marginalized people over well-connected and powerful people. So it's a difficult thing to do. It really requires a lot more work on kind of inclusive governance and governance institutions at all levels. And we need to focus on these aspects of empowerment and inclusion in policymaking and resource allocations as we go forward. And I think it's really great that we have President Nonzi here to talk about how to address inequality because EFAD, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, it's really a unique organization in the multilateral system, in that it focuses specifically on rural poverty, on rural communities, on poor and excluded people. It makes EFAD a really good partner for us and for Irish aid, EFAD has always been an important partner both multilaterally but also very importantly when we sit with governments and talk about what's going on in the rural economy and what's going on in agricultural policy in country. And EFAD is a strong partner for us. I'd just like to quote, you know, EFAD had this governing council in February where it agreed the kind of the funding model and the policy priorities for the next three years. And I just quote a couple of things from what the governing council decided. EFAD's strategic vision is one of inclusive and sustainable rural transformation. This requires the emergence of a productive, commercial, sustainable and inclusive agricultural sector, which on the one hand delivers high quality foods for a growing population, agricultural products for further processing and a range of critical environmental services and global goods and on the other offers decent incomes to small holder farmers and in particular to youth and women. EFAD's specific task is to support those rural households and communities who may otherwise be excluded from economic opportunities and unable to move out of poverty without targeted public support. Those groups typically lack assets. They're often marginalized and excluded from mainstream processes of economic development and they usually include women, youth and in some context indigenous peoples. EFAD's goal is to enable them to gain increasingly remunerative, sustainable and resilient livelihoods and help them move out of and beyond poverty. So that's a very specific mandate, a very specific focus. So I'll now give the floor to President Wanda to talk to us about how EFAD addresses inequality. Thank you very much.