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  1. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Global

    The purpose of this study is to update
    the review of World Bank experience in Irrigation (IEG 1994)
    and to broaden the scope of evaluation to include all water
    lending for agricultural development. Since that first
    study, the proportion of World Bank lending for agricultural
    water management continued to decline, a trend that started
    in the late 1970s when the sub-sector received 11 percent of
    the lending, is falling to less than 2 percent in 2001-03.

  2. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Global

    The World Bank Group has a unique
    opportunity to match the increases in financing for
    agriculture with a sharper focus on improving agricultural
    growth and productivity in agriculture-based economies,
    notably in Sub-Saharan Africa. Greater effort will be needed
    to connect sectoral interventions and achieve synergies from
    public and private sector interventions; to build capacity
    and knowledge exchange; to take stock of experience in

  3. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Global

    Interest in farmland is rising. And,
    given commodity price volatility, growing human and
    environmental pressures, and worries about food security,
    this interest will increase, especially in the developing
    world. One of the highest development priorities in the
    world must be to improve smallholder agricultural
    productivity, especially in Africa. Smallholder productivity
    is essential for reducing poverty and hunger, and more and

  4. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Global

    Climate change is widely acknowledged as
    foremost among the formidable challenges facing the
    international community in the 21st century. It poses
    challenges to fundamental elements of our understanding of
    appropriate goals for social and economic policy, such as
    the connection of prosperity, growth, equity, and
    sustainable development. This volume seeks to establish an
    agenda for research and action built on an enhanced

  5. Library Resource
    June, 2014
    Global

    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

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