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 1791 - 1795 of 4907Meeting the Energy Needs of the Urban Poor : Lessons from Electrification Practitioners
The present report was prepared on the
basis of the findings of an international workshop held from
September 12-14, 2005, in Salvador da Bahia, and was
attended by delegations of three to five practitioners from
12 cities in Latin America, Africa and Asia. It had two main
objectives: (a) to share experiences on innovative solutions
to provide electricity services in poor peri-urban and urban
areas; and (b) to develop a body of knowledge to be
A Methodology for Rapid Assessment of Rural Transport Services
Rural transport services are often
inadequate. Passenger and goods transport needs improving to
stimulate rural economies and reduce poverty. Understanding
existing rural transport systems and constraining factors is
a precondition for appropriate policy action. The
Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Program (SSATP)
commissioned a study to develop and test a methodology for
the rapid assessment of rural transport systems. The
Bus Rapid Transit Accessibility Guidelines
In recent years helpful guides have
appeared in both English and Spanish to assist planners and
officials to construct accessible buildings and pedestrian
infrastructure which are usable by seniors, persons with
disabilities, and all others who especially benefit from
universal design. Less has been written about access to
public transport systems. Very little guidance is available
concerning specific issues which confront those planning Bus
Landfill Gas Capture Opportunity in Sub-Saharan Africa
This study entitled, Landfill gas
capture opportunity in Sub-Saharan Africa, analyzes urban
waste in both quantitative and qualitative terms in selected
Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries to find out if available
methane from municipal waste could be used as a
supplementary energy source and evaluate whether potential
waste-to-energy (WTE) project candidates meet a certain
level of cost effectiveness, which is valuable to investors.
The Vulnerability of African Countries to Oil Price Shocks : Major Factors and Policy Options, The Case of Oil Importing Countries
Apart from a few oil exporters,
Sub-Saharan Africa consists of a large number of low-income
countries, many of which are highly dependent on oil imports
as a source of primary energy. The purpose of this study is
to provide information on a number of aspects of energy and
oil use in these countries, with a view to highlighting the
vulnerabilities of the different countries against sustained
or even increasing oil prices, and explore some of the