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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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Building Sustainability in an Urbanizing World : A Partnership Report

June, 2014

Cities are hubs of global change, and
their global influence continues to grow. Cities contribute
significantly to global challenges like climate change and
biodiversity loss. At the same time, cities experience
impacts like climate change first and with greatest
intensity. Further, cities are becoming leaders worldwide in
efforts to address global environmental and social problems.
Some of the most important smaller-scale agreements and

Tourism in Africa : Harnessing Tourism for Growth and Improved Livelihoods

June, 2014

This report is the first to examine
tourism in Africa comprehensively and regionally and the
first to recommend practical, evidence-based measures
enabling the sector s economic and development power. This
gives new impetus to the continent s development progress by
leveraging tourism in pursuit of lasting poverty alleviation
and the creation of significantly more jobs and
opportunities for all Africans.

Tourism in Africa : Harnessing Tourism for Growth and Improved Livelihoods

June, 2014

This report is the first to examine
tourism in Africa comprehensively and regionally and the
first to recommend practical, evidence-based measures
enabling the sector s economic and development power. This
gives new impetus to the continent s development progress by
leveraging tourism in pursuit of lasting poverty alleviation
and the creation of significantly more jobs and
opportunities for all Africans.

Nepal Development Update, April 2014

June, 2014

The enabling environment for the
development of Nepal has improved, but opportunities need to
be effectively leveraged through focused policy action.
Nepal has significant resources in the form of remittances
from abroad, but the economy cannot use these resources in a
productive manner to enhance the overall welfare of all
citizens. Specific priorities for development include: (1)
creating a growth promotion vision and agenda; (2)

High Food Prices, Latin American and the Caribbean Responses to a New Normal

June, 2014

Yet the current situation differs from
2007-2008 in critical respects. First, recent international
price increases are more widespread across agricultural
commodities than in 2008, when price spikes were led by few
grains such as wheat and rice. Second, natural resources are
affecting food production: land and water constraints are
more binding than in the past and weather induced production
shortfalls are more of a factor now than it was 2008.