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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 1998

    The growth of agriculture output over the past 200 years has been phenomenal. When Malthus wrote in 1798, he perceived limits on agricultural production as serious and imminent. Since then world population has increased by six-fold and global agricultural production has more than kept pace. Falling real grain prices for most of the 20th Century are cited as evidence. The sources of the increase in food production, however, have been quite different and have come in distinct waves. For most of the 19th century, increased output came from expanded land area in production.

  2. Library Resource

    Agricultural Sector Risk Assessment

    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    November, 2015
    Kenya

    Despite myriad challenges, Kenya has emerged in recent years as one of Africa’s frontier economies, with headline growth in the most recent decade propelling the country toward middle-income status. Less well understood is how risk dynamics associated with production, markets, and policy adversely impact sector performance, in terms of both influencing ex ante decision making among farmers, traders, and other sector stakeholders and causing ex post losses to crops, livestock, and incomes - destabilizing livelihoods and jeopardizing the country’s food security.

  3. Library Resource
    August, 2013

    Forest resources directly contribute to
    the livelihoods of 90 percent of the 1.2 billion people
    living in extreme poverty and indirectly support the natural
    environment that nourishes agriculture and the food supplies
    of nearly half the population of the developing world.
    Forests also are central to growth in many developing
    countries through trade and industrial development. However,
    mismanagement of this resource has cost governments revenues

  4. Library Resource
    July, 2013
    Bangladesh

    The major constraints to RNF growth,
    according to a large survey of rural entrepreneurs,'
    include (1) flood and natural disasters; (2) access to
    electricity; (3) road conditions, (4) access to finance and
    (5) transportation to markets. Bangladesh's
    vulnerability to frequent floods and other natural disasters
    severely hampers operations of more than a third of rural
    firms. The next most important constraint to RNF growth is

  5. Library Resource
    August, 2013
    Philippines, Global

    The report highlights how much recent
    achievements, in terms of growth, and poverty reduction, owe
    to the progress the country has made on a broad front of
    policy issues, such as openness to trade, investment, and
    competition, as well as education, and financial regulation.
    Nonetheless, progress has been uneven in several fronts,
    such as the need to intensify trade liberalization, and
    domestic competition; to strengthen governance across

  6. Library Resource
    July, 2013
    Mauritania

    Regulatory reform in all its
    aspects--deregulation, re-regulation, simplification, and
    building new institutional capacities for developing and
    applying high quality market rules--should be integrated
    throughout Mauritania's efforts to generate the growth
    and market development needed to combat poverty, improve
    standards of living, and lay the foundation for a
    sustainable development. This report identifies practical

  7. Library Resource
    July, 2013
    Bangladesh

    The major constraints to RNF growth,
    according to a large survey of rural entrepreneurs,'
    include (1) flood and natural disasters; (2) access to
    electricity; (3) road conditions, (4) access to finance and
    (5) transportation to markets. Bangladesh's
    vulnerability to frequent floods and other natural disasters
    severely hampers operations of more than a third of rural
    firms. The next most important constraint to RNF growth is

  8. Library Resource
    July, 2013
    Philippines

    T his report analyzes natural resource
    management and governance in the Philippines, identifying
    recent trends, current challenges, and future goals. The
    first half of the report summarizes the status of the
    country's natural resources, describes sector policies,
    institutions, and budget mechanisms, and identifies
    impediments to improvements. The second half focuses on
    three crucial issues for natural resource governance:

  9. Library Resource
    June, 2012

    The Tanzania country office of the World
    Bank has been exploring ways in which it can be more
    responsive to Government in supporting the National Strategy
    for Growth and Alleviation of Poverty (MKUKUTA) and ensuring
    growth is an integral part of strategic planning. Given
    Tanzania's great regional variations in resource
    endowments, growth potential and degree of institutional
    development, it was proposed that a regional case study of

  10. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Cambodia

    Many countries succeed in generating
    high economic growth at some point in their history. But
    only a very few manage to sustain rapid growth for an
    extended period. Only such a prolonged period of rapid
    growth can have a significant impact on income per capita,
    and such an impact often brings with it many other important
    changes to people's lives. Cambodia has more than
    doubled its income per capita over the past decade, from

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