The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. We are not a bank in the ordinary sense but a unique partnership to reduce poverty and support development. The World Bank Group has two ambitious goals: End extreme poverty within a generation and boost shared prosperity.
- To end extreme poverty, the Bank's goal is to decrease the percentage of people living on less than $1.25 a day to no more than 3% by 2030.
- To promote shared prosperity, the goal is to promote income growth of the bottom 40% of the population in each country.
The World Bank Group comprises five institutions managed by their member countries.
The World Bank Group and Land: Working to protect the rights of existing land users and to help secure benefits for smallholder farmers
The World Bank (IBRD and IDA) interacts primarily with governments to increase agricultural productivity, strengthen land tenure policies and improve land governance. More than 90% of the World Bank’s agriculture portfolio focuses on the productivity and access to markets by small holder farmers. Ten percent of our projects focus on the governance of land tenure.
Similarly, investments by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank Group’s private sector arm, including those in larger scale enterprises, overwhelmingly support smallholder farmers through improved access to finance, inputs and markets, and as direct suppliers. IFC invests in environmentally and socially sustainable private enterprises in all parts of the value chain (inputs such as irrigation and fertilizers, primary production, processing, transport and storage, traders, and risk management facilities including weather/crop insurance, warehouse financing, etc
For more information, visit the World Bank Group and land and food security (https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/agriculture/brief/land-and-food-security1
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Displaying 1346 - 1350 of 4907Regionalizing Infrastructure for Deepening Market Integration : The Case of East Africa
The East African Community has long
recognized that regional economic integration can yield
significant welfare gains to its member states. To that
end, the community has been making steady progress towards
the removal of tariffs and quantitative restrictions to
trade. Moreover, in recent years, there has been an
increasing recognition that: (a) even greater welfare gains
could be realized through deeper forms of regional
Africa's Pulse, February 2012 : An Analysis of Issues Shaping Africa's Economic Future
This Africa's pulse newsletter
includes the following headings: recent economic trends;
global economic developments; and trends and outlook for
Sub-Saharan Africa.
Producing Cellulose from Straw : Opportunities in Ukraine
This report is based on research conducted throughout 2011–2012 in cooperation
with Ukrainian agricultural producer Mriya Agro Holding to assess
the country’s potential for producing cellulose from straw.
The objective of this report is to demonstrate – for the country’s decisionmakers,
agribusinesses, paper-industry players and financial institutions –
how Ukraine’s available supply of straw could be efficiently used to produce
paper and cardboard, through the implementation of a major straw-tocellulose
program.
Technoserve : Mozambique Case Study
The innovative approaches and methods
that Technoserve Mozambique (TnsMz) has pioneered have
become best practice templates for other Tns country
operations and, indeed, best practice templates within
Mozambique itself, where TnsMz's successes in the
cashew, banana, and poultry industries are notably
successful. Tns offers no centralized facilities for
practicing and refining business skills, but rather serves
The Cost Structure of the Clean Development Mechanism
This paper examines the cost of
producing emission reduction credits under the Clean
Development Mechanism. Using project-specific data, cost
functions are estimated using alternative functional forms.
The results show that, in general, the distribution of
projects in the pipeline does not correspond exclusively to
the cost of generating anticipated credits. Rather,
investment choices appear to be influenced by location and