All about: Rural communities - Rachel Oliver

HONG KONG, China (CNN) -- It is said that nowhere else on earth will the impacts of climate change be felt more acutely than in the developing world.

Workers leave the Gobi desert after a day of afforestation work in Yinchuan, China.

And within the developing world, no-one else will be more vulnerable to these changes than the rural dweller.

More than 3 billion people live in the rural areas of the developing world; amongst them three quarters of the world's poorest, and three quarters of the world's hungry. There are many problems they face, but with relation to climate change the key problems are pretty fundamental: where they live and how they live.

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the weather-related impacts of climate change will largely be played out in the lower latitude regions of the world, where much of the world's rural poor live.