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Women in agriculture: Four myths

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2018
Global
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
land governance
food security
farming systems
land rights
farmers
women
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State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2020. Agricultural markets and sustainable development: Global value chains, smallholder farmers and digital innovations

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2020
Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agriculture
food security
land classification
land rights
land use
smallholders
The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets presents commodity market issues in an objective and accessible way to policy-makers, commodity market observers and stakeholders interested in agricultural commodity market developments and their impacts on countries at different levels of economic development.
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Women’s Rights and the Right to Food

Reports & Research
December, 2012
Global
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
agriculture
farmers
food security
gender equity in access to land
land access
tenure security
women
In the present report, submitted to the Human Rights Council in accordance with Council resolution 13/4, the Special Rapporteur on the right to food discusses the threats to women's right to food, identifying the areas that demand the most urgent attention. The report examines successively the obstacles women face in access to employment, social protection and the productive resources needed for food production, food processing and value chain development.
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Conflict and Food Insecurity

Policy Papers & Briefs
June, 2002
Global
Land & Food Security
Land Conflicts
farmers
food security
land conflicts
rural development
rural population
Armed conflicts are enemies of food security. There is a well established correlation between the exposure of countries to external or internal conflicts, and the deterioration or long-term stagnation in their food security. Most conflicts, and especially the internal conflicts that have now become the dominant model of mass violence, mainly affect rural areas and their populations.
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The rush for farmland

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2010
Global
Land & Investments
land acquisitions
farmland
land investments
food security
rural development
landlessness
tenure security
farmers
land grabbing
land policies
land deals
Since the 2008 food price crisis, foreign investors have been acquiring more and more land in poor countries for producing foodstuffs and biofuels for their own use. Such investments have the potential to promote rural development and food security worldwide. By the same token, however, there is the danger of countless small farmers losing their land, of food insecurity increasing in many places, and of social and ecological systems collapsing through pure "land grabbing".
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Food security, agricultural policy and the role of small-scale farms

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2013
Global
Land & Food Security
farmers
land access
tenure security
food security
land policies
Increasing prices for agricultural commodities offer a historic opportunity to intensify production systems for small-scale farmers in many developing countries. But without agricultural policies supporting them in making use of this opportunity, many of them would lose their access to land and income, resulting in aggravated food insecurity.
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Grow-ing disaster: the Fortune 500 goes farming

Reports & Research
December, 2016
Global, Vietnam
Land & Food Security
environment
farmers
farming systems
food security
land conflicts
land policies
The world's largest agribusiness corporations are rolling out a public-private partnership programme to take control of food and farming in the Global South.
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World Bank Assistance to Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa : An IEG Review

June, 2012
Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Global
agriculture
capacity development
farmers
food security
land reform
property rights
rural areas
rural development
sustainable development
This study assesses the development
effectiveness of World Bank assistance in addressing
constraints to agricultural development in Africa over the
period of fiscal years 1991-2006. This Independent
Evaluation Group (IEG) review of World Bank assistance to
agriculture in Africa has a twofold purpose. First, it is a
pilot for the proposed IEG study on Bank-wide assistance in
agriculture scheduled for fiscal year 2009. Second, the
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How Does Vietnam's Accession to the World Trade Organization Change the Spatial Incidence of Poverty?

May, 2012
Vietnam, Global
agriculture
farmers
food security
property rights
rural areas
urban areas
Trade policies can promote aggregate
efficiency, but the ensuing structural adjustments generally
create both winners and losers. From an incomes perspective,
trade liberalization can raise gross domestic product per
capita, but rates of emergence from poverty depend on
individual household characteristics of economic
participation and asset holding. To fully realize the growth
potential of trade, while limiting the risk of rising
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Growth and Productivity in Agriculture and Agribusiness : Evaluative Lessons from World Bank Group Experience

March, 2012
Global
Urban Tenure
agriculture
capacity development
climate change
decentralization
farmers
farmland
fisheries
food security
forestry
land administration
land rights
rural development
urbanization
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