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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Land Governance Assessment Framework: Implementation Manual for Assessing Governance in the Land Sector
Are Mega-Farms the Future of Global Agriculture? Exploring the Farm Size-Productivity Relationship for Large Commercial Farms in Ukraine
With farms cultivating tens or hundreds
of thousands of hectares, Ukraine is often used to
demonstrate the existence of economies of scale in modern
grain production. Panel data analysis for all the
country's farms with more than 200 hectares in
2001-2011 suggests that higher yields and profits are due to
unobserved factors at rayon (district) and farm level rather
than economies of scale. Productivity growth was driven not
From Guesstimates to GPStimates : Land Area Measurement and Implications for Agricultural Analysis
Land area measurement is a fundamental
component of agricultural statistics and analysis. Yet,
commonly employed self-reported land area measures used in
most analysis are not only potentially measured with error,
but these errors may be correlated with agricultural
outcomes. Measures employing Global Positioning Systems, on
the other hand, while not perfect especially on smaller
plots, are likely to provide more precise measures and
Should Zambia Produce Biodiesel from Soybeans? Some Insights from an Empirical Analysis
Facing a huge fiscal burden due to
imports of entire petroleum despite the availability of a
surplus of agricultural land to produce biofuels, Zambia, a
country in Sub-Saharan Africa, has recently introduced a
biofuel mandate. But, a number of questions, particularly
those related to the economics of biofuels, have not been
fully investigated yet. Using an empirical model this study
analyzes the economics of meeting the biodiesel mandate
Climate Change in the Himalayas : Current State of Knowledge
This paper reviews the literature on the
potential biophysical and economic impacts of climate change
in the Himalayas. Existing observations indicate that the
temperature is rising at a higher rate in Nepal and Chinese
regions of the Himalayas compared with rest of the
Himalayas. A declining trend of monsoon in the western
Indian Himalayas and an increasing trend in the eastern
Indian Himalayas have been observed, whereas increasing