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    Food Security and COVID-19
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    June, 2021
    Kenya, Angola, Chad, Liberia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Guatemala, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Pakistan, Global

    June 4, 2021 -- An increasing number of countries are facing growing levels of acute food insecurity, reversing years of development gains. Even before COVID-19 reduced incomes and disrupted supply chains, chronic and acute hunger were on the rise due to various factors including conflict, socio-economic conditions, natural hazards, climate change and pests. COVID-19 impacts have led to severe and widespread increases in global food insecurity, affecting vulnerable households in almost every country, with impacts expected to continue through 2021 and into 2022.

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    Responding to Crisis in Low Income, Fragile Countries

    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    July, 2011
    Liberia, Africa

    Together with reductions in indirect taxes on food imports, cash for work programs were one of the main responses implemented by African governments following the food, fuel, and financial crisis of recent years. The main objective of those programs was to help the poor cope with the various shocks by increasing their net earnings through community-level work paid for under the programs. Yet it is unclear whether these cash for work programs indeed reached their intended beneficiaries and to what degree they generated other, potentially long-term beneficial impacts.

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    Ethiopia

    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    April, 2012
    Ethiopia, Africa

    Because agriculture is the economic backbone of most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, including Ethiopia, any meaningful sustainable development program in the continent must therefore be anchored in the sector. The concept for this study on agribusiness indicators was based on the vital role that agribusiness plays in agricultural development. The study focuses on agribusiness indicators (ABI) to identify and isolate the determining factors that lead private investors and other stakeholders to participate in agribusiness and to engage in discourse regarding its development.

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    Mozambique

    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    April, 2012
    Mozambique, Africa

    Mozambique, the only Lusophone country covered in the agribusiness indicators initiative, has had a turbulent history since independence. Civil unrest over some 20 years and frequent drought in southern Mozambique, coupled with floods near the many waterways that transect the country (mainly east-west), have inhibited an agricultural transformation. Even so, Mozambique could be a regional breadbasket. The country has much potentially usable arable land, along with access to river water for irrigation in many agricultural production zones, particularly in central and northern Mozambique.

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    Unlocking the Potential of Agribusiness

    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    March, 2013
    Kenya, Burkina Faso, Zambia, Ghana, Senegal, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa

    This report highlights the great potential of the agribusiness sector in Africa by drawing on experience in Africa as well as other regions. The evidence demonstrates that good policies, a conducive business environment, and strategic support from governments can help agribusiness reach its potential. Africa is now at a crossroads, from which it can take concrete steps to realize its potential or continue to lose competitiveness, missing a major opportunity for increased growth, employment, and food security. The report pursues several lines of analysis.

  6. Library Resource
    August, 2012
    Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

    Environmental concerns must be
    integrated into the development process, but African
    countries still face many challenges as they work to achieve
    development that is economically, socially, and
    environmentally sustainable. Many countries have already
    launched National Environmental Action Plans (NEAPs) and
    National Conservation Strategies; however, in preparing and
    implementing them, economics was used sparingly because

  7. Library Resource
    September, 2013
    Madagascar

    This review aims to provide the
    Government of Madagascar with a situation assessment and
    insights and guidance on how to position the rural and
    environment sector as an engine for inclusive and
    sustainable economic growth. The review has cast the
    analytical net quite widely with the aim to come up with a
    comprehensive overview of the sector. In view of the
    intimate linkages between rural development and the

  8. Library Resource
    September, 2013
    Madagascar

    This review aims to provide the
    Government of Madagascar with a situation assessment and
    insights and guidance on how to position the rural and
    environment sector as an engine for inclusive and
    sustainable economic growth. The review has cast the
    analytical net quite widely with the aim to come up with a
    comprehensive overview of the sector. In view of the
    intimate linkages between rural development and the

  9. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Tanzania

    Tanzania's National Strategy for
    Growth and Reduction of Poverty (NSGRP) sets an ambitious
    target of 6 to 8 percent annual economic growth to achieve
    rapid reduction in poverty. This report focuses on three
    issues that are central to the success of Tanzania's
    poverty reduction efforts: 0 what factors explain
    Tanzania's recent acceleration in economic growth; has
    the accelerated economic growth translated into reduced

  10. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Global

    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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