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  1. Library Resource
    June, 2013
    Global

    This report provides recommendations on
    how to better manage ongoing changes in livestock
    development. First, it presents an overview of the main
    trends that can be expected to drive the sector over the
    next decades. Second it discusses the negative or positive
    social, environmental, and health repercussions of those
    trends, and the institutional, policy, and technical
    requirements needed to manage them. It concludes with a

  2. Library Resource
    July, 2013
    Global

    This Fisheries Sector Approach Paper has
    been written in recognition of the mounting challenges that
    the World Bank and the developing world face in meeting the
    fishery sector-related Millennium Development Goals and the
    outcomes of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable
    Development. It augments the Bank's Rural Strategy,
    Reaching the Rural Poor, which advocates a holistic approach
    to rural poverty reduction, and support for equitable

  3. 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.

  4. Library Resource
    July, 2014
    Global

    At the request of the World Bank's
    Executive Board, the Bank's Operations Evaluation
    Department (OED) has been conducting an evaluation of the
    Bank's involvement in global programs. The Phase 1
    Report titled The World Bank's Approach to Global
    Programs focused on the strategic and programmatic
    management of the Bank's global portfolio of 70
    programs in five Bank Networks (a cluster of closely related

  5. Library Resource
    January, 2014
    Global

    The World Bank had commissioned an
    independent team to evaluate and assess the future role of
    PROFISH, the Global Program on Fisheries. The evaluation
    team found that PROFISH, since its inception in 2005, had
    made excellent progress in raising World Bank, bilateral
    donor and client country awareness of fisheries development
    needs, contributed fisheries and aquaculture content to
    global development products and assisted World Bank country

  6. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Global

    This book grew out of the Global Issues
    seminars and is itself a testament to that two-way dialogue:
    the suggestion to compile the speakers' lecture notes
    into a book came from the students themselves. Both the
    seminars and this book reflect the Bank's conviction
    that the seemingly intractable problems of our globalizing
    world-from entrenched poverty, to climate change, to new
    infectious diseases such as AIDS and avian flu-can be

  7. Library Resource
    February, 2013
    Global

    Policy makers and development
    practitioners who are responsible for developing investment
    strategies to promote economic growth find many challenges
    in the changing face of agriculture in the twenty-first
    century. In addition to its productive role of providing
    food, clothing, fuel, and housing for a growing world
    population, agriculture assumes other roles, the importance
    of which has more recently been recognized. In addition to

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

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