- Agriculture Overview: Development news, research, data | World Bank
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
- Agriculture and Food: Development news, research, data | World Bank
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
- US Agriculture Statistics and Data Trends - USAFacts
In 2022, the federal government provided farms with $15 6 billion in subsidies, or direct farm program payments Find statistics and data trends about agriculture, including what is grown and where, the finances of America's farm businesses, and how many people work on American farms We visualize, explain, and provide objective context using government data to help you better understand the
- Agriculture and Food: What We Do - World Bank Group
Agriculture and Food: What We Do Climate-Smart Agriculture As the largest funder of agricultural development assistance, the World Bank is a global leader in supporting the transition to more efficient, climate-smart food systems We have global reach through investments, technical assistance, knowledge generation, and partnerships
- Climate-Smart Agriculture - World Bank Group
Climate-smart agriculture Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is an integrated approach to managing landscapes—cropland, livestock, forests and fisheries--that address the interlinked challenges of food security and climate change Overview Climate change and food and nutrition insecurity pose two of the greatest development challenges of our time
- Agriculture: A Driver of Growth and Poverty Reduction
Modernizing agriculture is critical to empowering the poor and vulnerable Providing smallholder farmers with better extension services, quality inputs, and credit will improve their livelihoods and further contribute to poverty reduction
- Who is the American farmer? - USAFacts
According to the Department of Agriculture (USDA), there are 3 4 million agricultural “producers,” or the farmers and workers involved in making decisions from planting to harvesting to marketing on these farms
- Federal farm subsidies: What the data says - USAFacts
In 2024, the government provided $9 3 billion in subsidy payments to farmers for commodity crops Subsidies made up 5 9% of total farm earnings that year, with the most funding going to corn, soybeans, and cotton What are farm subsidies? Farm subsidies, also known as agricultural subsidies, are financial support from the federal government to farmers and agricultural businesses Subsidies
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