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 3271 - 3275 of 4907Investing in Drought Preparedness
Drought is a normal part of climate for
virtually every country. This paper notes that in response,
a risk-based management approach is more cost effective
because it emphasizes improved monitoring and early warning
systems; development of strong decision-support systems;
identification and implementation of mitigation actions;
education and training of policy makers, natural resources
managers, and the public; and drought mitigation plans that
FDI Trends : Looking Beyond the Current Gloom in Developing Countries
The fall in foreign direct investment
(FDI) since 1999 and China's growing share, worry most
developing countries. But an in-depth look reveals new and
promising trends. The decline is largely a one-time
adjustment following the privatization boom of the 1990s.
FDI is coming from more countries - and going to more
sectors. The conditions for attracting FDI vary by sector:
in labor-intensive manufacturing, for example, efficient
Transferring an Indigenous Practice for Soil Improvement : Cattle Manure with Groundnut Shells
Soil fertility never used to be a major
constraint due to the age-old practices of recycling
agricultural residues in several ways. However, in these
days of inorganic fertilizers and quick returns, the problem
of soil management and its related constraints are
surfacing. In this context, indigenous practices related to
soil and water conservation which can also be termed
resource-conserving technologies need to be documented in a
Understanding the Drivers of Sustainable Rural Growth and Poverty Reduction in Honduras
With a population of seven million,
Honduras is the second most populous country in Central
America. It is also the second poorest country in the region
with an annual per capita income of less than US$ 1,000. Two
out of every three people in Honduras are poor (per capita
income less than US$ 1.50/day); and three out of every four
poor people are extremely poor (per capita income less than
US$ 1.00/day). Social indicators such as child malnutrition
Demand Forecasting Errors
Demand forecasts form a key input to the
economic appraisal. As such any errors present within the
demand forecasts will undermine the reliability of the
economic appraisal. The minimization of demand forecasting
errors is therefore important in the delivery of a robust
appraisal. This issue is addressed in this note by
introducing the key issues, and error types present within
demand forecasts (Section 1). Following that introductory