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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
    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

  5. Library Resource
    March, 2016

    The purpose of this paper is to provide
    information on how to transform and strengthen pluralistic
    agricultural extension and advisory systems in moving toward
    the broader goal of increasing farm income and improving
    rural livelihoods. The focus of this book is primarily on
    the technical knowledge, management skills, and information
    services that small-scale farm households will need to
    improve their livelihoods in the rapidly changing global

  6. 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

  7. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Chile

    This paper aims to develop a vision
    statement for the agricultural sector that may then guide
    the future investments in Chile's agricultural
    innovation system, A joint and shared perspective on how the
    sector might look and what role agricultural innovation
    should play in getting there is a prerequisite for any
    effective strategy. But developing such a vision is not only
    a function of what the country wants: it also depends on the

  8. 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

  9. Library Resource
    April, 2014

    This paper reviews Pakistan's
    agriculture performance and analyzes its agriculture and
    water policies. It discusses the nature of rural poverty and
    emphasizes the reasons why agricultural growth is a critical
    component to any pro-poor growth strategy for Pakistan. It
    supports these arguments by summarizing key results from
    recent empirical analysis where the relative benefits of
    agricultural versus non-agricultural led growth are

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