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 3521 - 3525 of 4907Trade Reforms, Farm Productivity, and Poverty in Bangladesh
This paper analyzes the distributional impacts of trade reforms in rural areas of Bangladesh. The liberalization of trade in irrigation equipment and fertilizer markets during the early 1990s has led to structural changes in the agricultural sector and a significant increase in rice productivity. A resulting increase in output has been associated with a decline in producer and consumer rice prices of approximately 25 percent.
Institutional and Policy Analysis of River Basin Management : The Gudalquivir River Basin, Spain
The authors describe and analyze river basin management in the Guadalquivir River Basin in Spain. The Guadalquivir river flows westerly across southern Spain, with nearly all of its 57,017 k
Beyond the Numbers : Understanding the Institutions for Monitoring Poverty Reduction Strategies
This volume provides lessons on the
design and functioning of such monitoring systems, based on
the experience of twelve Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS)
countries (Albania, Bolivia, Guyana, Honduras, the Kyrgyz
Republic, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Nicaragua, Niger,
Tanzania, and Uganda). The focus is on the institutional
arrangements of PRS monitoring systems - the rules and
processes which bring the various actors and monitoring
Measuring the Initial Impacts on Deforestation of Mato Grosso's Program for Environmental Control
Although private forest use in Brazil has been regulated at least since the Forest Code of 1965, cumulative deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon reached 653,000 k
Private Solutions for Infrastructure in Angola : A Country Framework Report
The Country Framework Report (CFR) for
Angola is one of a series of country reviews aimed at
improving the environment for private sector involvement in
infrastructure. The report seeks to assist the Government of
Angola in developing policies, and a framework to promote
private participation in the rebuilding, and development of
the country's infrastructure. Following the years of
conflict, and the resulting damage to the country's