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- 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
- Climate-Smart Agriculture - World Bank Group
Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) Country Profiles developed by the World Bank and partners, give an overview of the agricultural challenges in countries around the world, and how CSA can help them adapt to and mitigate climate change
- Resilient Agricultural Project Boosts Livelihoods of Vulnerable . . .
The project, a partnership between the Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica and the World Bank, focused on providing assets to farmers and fisherfolk, rehabilitating croplands, and improving agricultural technologies Additionally, farmers have been introduced to climate resilience technologies, enhancing their capacity to adapt to changing environmental conditions
- Agricultural Labor - World Bank Group
Agricultural household labor is therefore a key household asset and its accurate measurement is important The estimation of labor inputs on smallholder farms is complex and vulnerable to misreporting Smallholder farms typically employ mostly family labor; thus, there is no wage income in which to anchor recall estimates
- Agriculture and Rural Development - World Bank Group
Agricultural productivity growth appears to induce structural transformation within the small-town services sector, with employment in high-skilled services growing at a faster pace than that in low-skilled services
- Zambia Agriculture Investment Plan Supports Climate-Smart Agricultural . . .
Climate-smart agriculture technology would help Zambia accelerate and sustain agricultural growth despite climate vulnerabilities
- Digitalizing Agricultural Payments in SSA - World Bank Group
The opportunity to receive a digital payment is correlated with first-time financial account ownership, as well as with deeper use of financial services such as digital payments, storing money, and saving in an account This note examines the opportunity to achieve these financial inclusion benefits for the 140 million agricultural producers on the continent—66 million of them women—who
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