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 1886 - 1890 of 4907Brazil - Improving the Appraisal Framework for Road Transport Infrastructure Investments : Elements for Consideration
The main purpose of an appraisal
framework for transport infrastructure projects and programs
is to provide an objective and transparent basis for
decision-makers to ascertain the feasibility and levels of
priority of major transport projects and policies. An
appraisal framework also serves a second, more general,
purpose: to contribute to upgrading internal management
processes aimed at improving the quality of expenditure. An
Air Freight : A Market Study with Implications for Landlocked Countries
To facilitate air freight, landlocked
countries need to improve operations at their airports and
liberalize access for foreign airlines. But until those
countries become major exporters, it is unlikely that
scheduled air cargo operators will have significant
operations. Instead, most air cargo will move as belly cargo
on passenger airlines, with some complementary use of
chartered air freighters during shipment peaks. Landlocked
Strategic Environmental Assessment : Improving Water Resources Governance and Decision Making
The overall goal of this report is to
assist water resources and environment professionals within
the Bank and client countries to use Strategic environmental
assessment (SEAs) to effectively implement the principles of
Integrated water resources management (IWRM). It (a)
delineates environmental issues related IWRM; (b) identifies
opportunities for SEAs to addressing these environmental
issues; (c) uses the literature and ten Bank and non-Bank
Performance Based Contracts in the Road Sector : Towards Improved Efficiency in the Management of Maintenance and Rehabilitation - Brazil's Experience
This note aims at providing feedback on
Brazil's successful experience in using performance
based contracts in the rehabilitation and maintenance of the
road networks. Since its introduction in the early
2000's, the use of this contract management model has
progressively spread to reach, as of today, one third of the
federal network and more than 10 percent of the states'
networks, and expectations are for higher figures in the
Good Practices in City Energy Efficiency : Bogota, Colombia - Bus Rapid Transit for Urban Transport
Bogota, the capital city of Colombia, is
located near the geographic center of Colombia, 2,640 meters
(8,661 ft) sea level. It is the largest and most populous
city in the nation, with an estimated 8.2 million
inhabitants in the metropolitan area in 2007 and a
population density of 3,912 inhabitants per square
kilometer. Its economy generates 25 percent of
Colombia's total gross domestic product (GDP). The