Overarching approaches that combine, for example, agriculture, transport and energy policies can lose territorial focus and/or may have unintended impacts on mral dwellers. In contrast, the narrow mral policy approach can suffer from being less cross-sectoral or integrated in its interventions. The appropriateness of either approach depends in large part on the nature of mral territories (e.g. the socio-demographic characteristics of the population and the stmcture of local economies) and their access to goods, services and infrastructure. In places where a significant share of the mral population lives far from services and faces social and economic marginalisation, narrower mral policies are needed.