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 3196 - 3200 of 4907Expanding Water and Sanitation Services to Low-Income Households : the Case of the La Paz-El Alto Concession
Bolivia is one of a growing number of
developing countries turning to the private sector to
improve urban water and sanitation services. The
country's first major contract in the sector, a
twenty-five-year concession for the neighboring cities of La
Paz and El Alto, was implemented in August 1997. A primary
objective in moving to a private concession was to expand
services to low-income households while holding down costs
Fiscal Systems for Oil : The Government "Take" and Competition for Exploration Investment
Exploration for petroleum occurs on the
basis of government-granted concessions, leases, or
contracts whose terms and conditions are established by law
or negotiated case by case. An important part of these
arrangements is the fiscal terms and conditions-bonuses,
rentals, royalties, and taxes. The author looks at fiscal
systems around the world and draws some conclusions about
how governments compete for exploration investment.
Uganda : The First Urban Project
The project's original objectives
were to: a) improve living conditions and alleviate poverty
in Kampala; b) improve urban financial management; and 3)
strengthen institutional capacity. As part of the mid-term
restructuring, monitor modifications were made to these
objectives: 1) strengthen the Kampala City Council's
(KCC) ability to better deliver, finance, and maintain basic
urban services for all Kampala residents, particularly the
Integrated Coastal Zone Management Strategy for Ghana
Environmental degradation of coastal
areas was identified as a key issue in Ghana's
Environmental Action Plan. The central objective of the
World Bank-assisted Integrated Coastal Zone Management
(ICZM) initiative in Ghana, which commenced in 1995, was to
identify economically, socially and environmentally
appropriate interventions and projects in the coastal zone
that improve the prospects for human development. ICZM is
Benefit Sharing in Protected Area Management : The Case of Tarangire National Park, Tanzania
Conservation is often viewed as a
tradeoff between the development of short-term benefits and
protection for long-term benefits. However, with the
appropriate mechanisms, it is possible to achieve both aims.
The justification to protect parks in developing countries
can be based on an economic rationale rather than a
primarily social or environmental one. Enhancing the revenue
earning potential of protected areas from tourism, and