Agriculture Overview: Development news, research, data | World …
2024年10月9日 · Agriculture can help reduce poverty for 75% of the world's poor, who live in rural areas and work mainly in farming. It can raise incomes, improve food security and benefit the environment. The World Bank Group is a leading financier of agriculture, with $8.1 billion in new commitments in 2013.
Climate-smart agriculture - World Bank Group
2024年2月26日 · In response to these challenges, the concept of Climate-smart Agriculture (CSA) has emerged as a holistic approach to end food security and promote sustainable development while addressing climate change issues. CSA is a set of agricultural practices and technologies which simultaneously boost productivity, enhance resilience and reduce GHG ...
5 Key Issues in Agriculture in 2021 - World Bank Group
2021年12月16日 · Food Security. Like the previous year, news in agriculture and food in 2021 was dominated by deteriorating food security. Approximately 30 percent of the world’s population lacked access to adequate food in 2020 and into 2021. The World Bank took action to fight food insecurity around the world, providing immediate aid to vulnerable ...
Making Farming More Productive and Profitable for Ugandan …
2018年6月19日 · Challenges notwithstanding, Ugandan agriculture has enormous potential to transform the economy and make farming much more productive and profitable for Ugandan smallholder farmers, the report says. In stark opposition to supply-side constraints, demand-side opportunities for agriculture and food for Uganda and its neighbors are the strongest ...
Agriculture and Rural Development - World Bank Group
The Role of Agriculture and Rural Development in Ending Poverty and Boosting Shared Prosperity. Three-quarters of the world’s poor live in rural areas and most earn their living from farming. Enhancing agricultural productivity is thus essential to achieving poverty reduction. Productivity growth in agriculture is also the driving force ...
Agriculture and Food: Development news, research, data | World …
Agriculture and Food Agriculture can help reduce poverty, raise incomes and improve food security for 80% of the world's poor, who live in rural areas and work mainly in farming. The World Bank Group is a leading financier of agriculture.
PHILIPPINES: Vibrant Agriculture is Key to Faster Recovery and …
2020年9月9日 · Titled “Transforming Philippine Agriculture During Covid-19 and Beyond,” the report says that transforming the country’s farming and food systems is even more important during the Covid-19 pandemic to ensure strong food value chains, affordable and nutritious food, and a vibrant rural economy.
Agriculture Finance & Agriculture Insurance - World Bank Group
Agriculture finance empowers poor farmers to increase their wealth and facilitates the development of food value chains for feeding 9 billion people by 2050. Our work in agriculture finance helps clients provide market-based financial services, and fund long-term and green investments to support sustainable agriculture and agri-food value ...
Cambodian Agriculture in Transition: Opportunities and Risks
Yet, agricultural growth has slowed down to around 1-2% in 2013-2014. A World Bank report, Cambodian Agriculture in Transition: Opportunities and Risks , co-financed by the World Bank and Australian Government, raises concerns and suggests ways to ensure agriculture continues to be a driver of growth and poverty reduction. Key Findings.
Moving Towards Sustainability: The Livestock Sector and the …
Improved livestock management is an integral part of the “ One Health ” approach, which seeks to optimize human, animal, and planetary health. As part of its commitment to helping countries build sustainable, nutritious food systems, the World Bank is moving its livestock investments towards greater sustainability and climate-smart outcomes.