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
Resources
Displaying 1906 - 1910 of 4907Sierra Leone : Public Expenditure Review for Water and Sanitation 2002 to 2009
This review focuses on how public
expenditure translates into the delivery of water supply and
sanitation services in rural and urban areas in Sierra
Leone. It describes the legal and institutional framework
for the allocation of resources assesses access to Water
Supply and Sanitation (WSS) services and past sector
performance, and analyzes public expenditure in the sector,
including the factors affecting the efficiency of use of
Developing an Energy Efficient Urban Transport Plan for Zarqa City Downtown Area
To promote energy efficiency in the
delivery of city services, the Energy Sector Management
Assistance Program (ESMAP) in the World Bank launched a
multi-year initiative, the Energy Efficient Cities
Initiative (EECI), in December 2008 to help scale-up energy
efficiency improvements in developing country cities around
the world. One of the tools to help scale up energy
efficiency improvements under the EECI program is the
India Groundwater Governance Case Study
Groundwater comprises 97 percent of the
worlds readily accessible freshwater and provides the rural,
urban, industrial and irrigation water supply needs of 2
billion people around the world. As the more easily accessed
surface water resources are already being used, pressure on
groundwater is growing. In the last few decades, this
pressure has been evident through rapidly increasing pumping
of groundwater, accelerated by the availability of cheap
Multi-Village Pooling Project in Indonesia : Handbook for Community-Based Water Supply Organizations
The book discusses basic concepts on key
topics to managing a small piped water system ideally for up
to 1,000 households. It presents tools that can be adapted
by Community-Based Water Organizations (CBOs) for use in
their operations, such as forms, checklists and procedural
guidelines. Illustrative examples have also been compiled
from the experiences of the district local governments,
support organizations and CBOs operating in East and West
Tunisia Agricultural Finance Study : Main Summary Report
The Tunisia agricultural finance study
was carried out in response to a request made in December
2009 by the Tunisian Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) for
support for a study on the key constraints in agricultural
finance. Technical and financial support was specifically
requested for: (i) a comprehensive diagnostic analysis of
the current mechanisms and problems of financing of the
agricultural sector in Tunisia, including those by financial