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 4311 - 4315 of 4907The Zambezi River Basin : A Multi-Sector Investment Opportunities Analysis - State of the Basin
The Zambezi River Basin (ZRB) is one of
the most diverse and valuable natural resources in Africa.
Its waters are critical to sustainable economic growth and
poverty reduction in the region. The overall objective of
the Zambezi River Multi-Sector Investment
Opportunity Analysis (MSIOA) is to illustrate the benefits
of cooperation among the riparian countries in the ZRB
through a multi-sectoral economic evaluation of water
Uganda - Legal and Judicial Sector Study Report
This study examines and evaluates
developments in the Justice Law and Order Sector (JLOS)
institutions, noting both the achievements and continuing
challenges of reform under first phase Sector Investment
Plan (SIP I) and SIP II. It pays particular attention to the
SIP guidelines and objectives and to the outstanding
challenges described in various reviews of the JLOS
institutions, more specifically: (a) the commercial court;
The Impacts of Climate Variability on Welfare in Rural Mexico
This paper examines the impacts of
weather shocks, defined as rainfall or growing degree days
more than a standard deviation from their respective
long-run means, on household consumption per capita and
child height-for-age. The results reveal that the current
risk-coping mechanisms are not effective in protecting these
two dimensions of welfare from erratic weather patterns.
These findings imply that the change in the patterns of
The Impact of Climate Change on Hurricane Damages in the United States
This paper quantifies hurricane damage
caused by climate change across the US. A damage function is
estimated from historic hurricane data to measure the
impacts at each location given the storm's strength.
The minimum barometric pressure of each storm turns out to
be a better indicator of damages than the traditional
measure of maximum wind speed. A hurricane generator in the
Atlantic Ocean is then used to create 5000 storms with and
Leadership and Growth : Commission on Growth and Development
In May 2008, the commission on growth
and development (the growth commission) issued its report
entitled 'the growth report'. In it the commission
attempted to distill what had been learned in the past two
decades, from experience and academic and policy research,
about strategies and policies that produced sustained high
growth in developing countries. It became clear in the
course of the work that politics, leadership, and political