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World Bank Group
World Bank Group
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WB
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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

Members:

Aparajita Goyal
Wael Zakout
Jorge Muñoz
Victoria Stanley

Resources

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Green Logistics : Enablers for Sustainable Development

Abril, 2014

Logistics is the backbone of industry
and commerce. As a discipline, it describes the management
and coordination of activities along supply chains. These
activities include freight transport, storage, inventory
management, materials handling and related information
processing. A large part of logistics activities are often
outsourced to specialized providers that provide
cost-effective services. Research has shown that, at least

Levelling the Field : Improving Opportunities for Women Farmers in Africa

Abril, 2014

There is a growing recognition of
agriculture's potential to spur growth and reduce
poverty in Africa. Agriculture accounts for one-third of the
continent's gross domestic product (GDP), and
two-thirds of its citizens rely on the sector for their
incomes. Investments in agriculture will hence not only
improve productivity and the continent's ability to
feed a growing population, but will also lift families out

Do Pro-Poor Policies Increase Water Coverage? An Analysis of Service Delivery in Kampala's Informal Settlements

Abril, 2014

Uganda is one of the poorest countries
in Africa with a gross national income (GNI) per capita in
2010 of United States (U.S.) $500 compared with the
Sub-Saharan regional average of $1,170. Uganda's
population growth of over 3 percent per year, one of the
highest in the world, puts a considerable strain on public
sector service delivery, not just for water and sanitation
but also in other areas such as health, education, and

Explaining Gender Differentials in Agricultural Production in Nigeria

Abril, 2014

This paper uses data from the General
Household Survey Panel 2010/11 to analyze differences in
agricultural productivity across male and female plot
managers in Nigeria. The analysis utilizes the
Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition method, which allows for
decomposing the unconditional gender gap into (i) the
portion caused by observable differences in the factors of
production (endowment effect) and (ii) the unexplained

Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas

Abril, 2014

Using newly collected national and
sub-national data, and historical case studies, this paper
argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by
the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second
Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present
income differences, and, in particular, the poor performance
of Latin America relative to North America. This remains the
case after controlling for literacy, other higher order