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  1. Library Resource
    Smallholders, food security, and the environment cover image
    Reports & Research
    December, 2013
    Global

    There are 1.4 billion poor people living on less than US$1.25 a day. One billion of them live in rural areas where agriculture is their main source of livelihood. The ‘green revolution’ in agriculture that swept large parts of the developing world during the 1960s and 1970s dramatically increased agricultural productivity and reduced poverty. Many of the productivity gains accrued to smallholder farmers, supported through research and extension services.

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    Global

    The devastating tsunami has shown in a tragic way the great vulnerability and exposed nature of coastal communities to natural calamities. It also has drawn global attention to the poor living conditions of fishing communities and the many threats to the sustainable use of fishery resources and coastal ecosystems. Post-tsunami rehabilitation offers the opportunity to build back better, improve and make more secure the lives of disadvantaged sections of the population and set fisheries and coastal resource use on a sustainable footing.

  3. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Global, Tanzania

    This paper uses a computable general
    equilibrium model to assess the welfare impact of commodity
    price inflation in Tanzania and possible tax policy
    responses in the short, medium, and long term. The results
    suggest that global commodity inflation since 2006 may have
    had a significantly negative impact on all Tanzanian
    households. Most of the negative impact comes from the rise
    in the price of oil. In contrast, food price spikes are

  4. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Global

    Trade policy reforms in recent decades
    have sharply reduced the distortions that were harming
    agriculture in developing countries, yet global trade in
    farm products continues to be far more distorted than trade
    in nonfarm goods. Those distortions reduce some forms of
    poverty and inequality but worsen others, so the net effects
    are unclear without empirical modeling. This paper
    summarizes a series of new economy-wide global and national

  5. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Global

    The spike in food prices between 2005
    and the first half of 2008 has highlighted the
    vulnerabilities of poor consumers to higher prices of
    agricultural goods and generated calls for massive policy
    action. This paper provides a formal assessment of the
    direct and indirect impacts of higher prices on global
    poverty using a representative sample of 63 to 93 percent of
    the population of the developing world. To assess the direct

  6. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Global

    The amount of available water has been
    constant for millennia, but over time the planet has added 6
    billion people. Water is essential to human life and
    enterprise, and the increasing strains on available water
    resources threaten the mission of institutions dedicated to
    economic development. The ultimate goal is to achieve a
    sustainable balance between the resources available and the
    societal requirement for water. In this evaluation the

  7. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Global

    This paper analyzes the impact of large-scale expansion of biofuels on the global income distribution and poverty. A global computable general equilibrium model is used to simulate the effects of the expansion of biofuels on resource allocation, commodity prices, factor prices and household income. A second model based on world-wide household surveys uses these results to calculate the impacts on poverty and global income inequality. The study finds that the large-scale expansion of biofuels leads to an increase in production and prices of agricultural commodities.

  8. Library Resource
    December, 2014
    Global

    In this issue: the impact of migration
    on rural poverty and inequality in China; how would a global
    expansion of biofuel production effect developing countries?
    How resilient were emerging economies to the global crisis?
    Small but effective: India's targeted unconditional cash
    transfers; good countries or good projects? Fiscal policies
    for growth in Africa in light of the crisis; and
    employability and skills of newly graduated engineers in India.

  9. 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

  10. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Global, Indonesia

    Did the rise in food prices have a long-term impact on agricultural production? Using household-level panel data from seven provinces of Indonesia, this paper finds that the price shock created a forward-looking incentive to invest, which can dynamically enhance productivity in agriculture. It also finds that the impact of the price shock on investment behavior differs by initial wealth. In response to price increases, wealthy farmers invested more in productive assets, while poor farmers increased their financial savings as well as consumption.

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