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 3601 - 3605 of 4906Nicaragua : Poverty Assessment, Volume 1. Main Report
Nicaragua is a small, open economy that
is vulnerable to external and natural shocks. With an
estimated Gross National Income (GNI) per capita of US$1000
in 2006, and a total population of 5.2 million, it is one of
the poorest countries in Latin America. Forty six percent of
the population lived below the poverty line in 2005 (while
15 percent lived in extreme poverty), and the incidence of
poverty is more than twice as high in rural areas (68
Algeria - Public Expenditure Review : Assuring High Quality Public Investment, Volume 2. Annexes and Statistical Annex
The fiscal space generated by a
prolonged oil windfall has enabled Algeria to embark on a
massive public investment program for 2005- 09, Programme
Complementaire de Soutien a la Croissance (PCSC). Taking
advantage of the current macroeconomic and fiscal
opportunity, the country could institutionalize high-quality
public expenditure that would contribute social benefit far
into the future. This Public Expenditure Review (PER) is an
Africa : Irrigation investment Needs in Sub-Saharan Africa
In Sub-Saharan Africa, rainfall is
highly variable and, in many places, plainly in sufficient.
Although irrigation has the potential to boost agricultural
yields by at least 50 percent, food production in the region
is almost entirely rain-fed. The irrigated area, extending
over 6 million hectares, makes up just 5 percent of the
total cultivated area, compared to 37 percent in Asia and 14
percent in Latin America. Two-thirds of that area is in
An Analysis of Livestock Choice : Adapting to Climate Change in Latin American Farms
The authors explore how Latin American
livestock farmers adapt to climate by switching species.
They develop a multinomial choice model of farmer's
choice of livestock species. Estimating the models across
over 1,200 livestock farmers in seven countries, they find
that both temperature and precipitation affect the species
Latin American farmers choose. The authors then use this
model to predict how future climate scenarios would affect
Cote d'Ivoire : Volatility, Shocks and Growth
Key economic variables in Cote
d'Ivoire vary widely from their long-run trends, moving
in multi-year cyclical patterns. Cocoa prices move with
cycles in growth rates, capital stock, real exchange rates,
terms of trade, cocoa production, and coffee production and
output. These patterns have become more pronounced since the
1970s as volatility increased. This paper characterize these
cycles, estimates the cocoa price-quantity relationship, and