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 3386 - 3390 of 4907Increasing Access to Justice for Women, the Poor, and Those Living in Remote Areas : An Indonesian Case Study
This briefing note outlines the reform
process that produced these notable results, a process that
began with targeted grassroots empowerment through
engagement with PEKKA, an Indonesian civil society
organization supporting women headed households. Formal
justice sector institutions and local governments
subsequently built on those efforts, with support from
international development agencies. The note will outline
Creating More Livable Cities : The Case of the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Area
Despite Rio de Janeiro's privileged
position as Brazil's historical capital (from the
eighteenth century until 1960) and as a major center for
tourism, culture, and education, the city and its region
(collectively known as the metropolitan region of Rio de
Janeiro) confronted significant challenges during the final
decades of the twentieth century. Since the relocation of
the national capital to Brasilia, ongoing industrial
The Middle East and North Africa and Dependence on the Capital-Intensive Hydrocarbon Sector
MENA felt the impact of the financial
and economic crisis to a much lesser extent than developed
economies and emerging markets outside Asia, however, the
economic recovery in MENA has also lacked vigor. Before the
recent uprisings, MENA was expected to return to pre-crisis
growth rates of 4.8 percent by 2011-12, but growth rates in
this range are not high enough to address the key challenges
facing the region, including high unemployment rates -
The Drought and Food Crisis in the Horn of Africa : Impacts and Proposed Policy Responses for Kenya
As the world begins to feel the effects
of climate change, the frequency of droughts is increasing
in the Horn of Africa. In Kenya, the drought and food crisis
affect welfare through two main channels. The first channel
is the increased mortality of livestock in drought-affected
areas, which are home to 10 percent of the country's
population. The second channel is by exacerbating increases
in food prices, which are largely driven by worldwide price
Tajikistan - Economic and Distributional Impact of Climate Change
Tajikistan is highly vulnerable to the
adverse impacts of global climate change, as it already
suffers from low agricultural productivity, water stress,
and high losses from disasters. Public awareness of the
multiple consequences of climate change is high, with
possible impacts on health, natural disasters, and
agriculture of greatest public concern. Climate change can
potentially deepen poverty by lowering agricultural yields,