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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2007

    This report seeks to present micro evidence on how environmental changes affect poor households. It focuses primarily on environmental resources that are outside the private sphere, particularly commonly held and managed resources such as forests, fisheries, and wildlife. The objectives for this volume are three-fold. It is first interested in using an empirical data-driven approach to examine the dependence of the poor on natural resources. The second objective is to examine the role of the environment in determining health outcomes.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Global

    This paper provides an overview of the
    history of development research at the World Bank and points
    to new future directions in both what we research and how we
    research. Six main messages emerge. First, research and data
    have long been essential elements of the Bank's country
    programs and its contributions to global public goods, and
    this will remain the case. Second, development thinking is
    in a state of flux and uncertainty; it is time to reconsider

  7. Library Resource
    February, 2013
    Uruguay

    The bank has a long relationship with
    Uruguay's agricultural sector, expanding over a period
    of more than 60 years in which several projects and various
    analytical and advisory assistance initiatives have been
    implemented. The main purposes of the present report are: a)
    to analyze the main characteristics of family agriculture as
    well as its development potential and constraints; b) to
    examine Uruguay's current agricultural policy and

  8. Library Resource
    March, 2013
    Vietnam

    This report provides a synthesis of key
    findings of sector studies undertaken in Vietnam in the
    context of the EACC study. The sector studies were on
    agriculture (Zhu & Guo 2010), a separate computable
    general equilibrium [CGE] analysisbased on
    agriculture findings (Adams et al. 2010), aquaculture (Kam
    et al. 2010), forestry (Phuong). At the global level, the

  9. 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

  10. 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

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