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  1. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2015
    Southern Africa, Central Asia, South America, Africa, Asia, Western Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, Southern Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, South America, Africa, Asia

    In addition to global developments and food policy changes, 2014 also saw important developments with potentially wide repercussions in individual countries and regions. This chapter offers perspectives on major food policy developments in various regions including Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, Central Asia, South Asia, East Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    December, 2007
    Nepal, Southern Asia

    The main objective of the Country Environmental Analysis (CEA) in Nepal is to identify opportunities for enhancing the overall performance of select environmental management systems through improvements in the effectiveness of institutions, policies, and processes.

  3. Library Resource

    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.

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

    Environmental degradation primarily
    affects the poor, both in rural and urban areas. Reversing
    the downward spiral of this degradation is essential to any
    strategy for reducing poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. This
    study outlines the World Bank's strategy for improving
    its assistance to SSA countries as they move toward
    environmentally sustainable development (ESD). It assesses
    the environmental situation and long-term trends in Africa,

  5. Library Resource
    July, 2013
    Sudan

    This Country Economic Memorandum is the
    first economic report in a decade. It gives priority to
    updating knowledge about the evolution of social and
    economic developments during the 1990s. It reviewareas of
    progress in macroeconomic reforms and the lack of success in
    governance and institutional reforms. Substantial reforms
    were undertaken in this period , but the civil war continued
    to have a serious negative impact on Sudan's people and

  6. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Indonesia

    There is still a long road ahead before all Indonesian's can benefit from the full potential of ICT. That road seems even longer to rural women. Despite some improvements in access and the rapid deployment of lower cost wireless technologies, not much has changed in rural areas of Indonesia. Infrastructure in rural areas is limited and existing services are expensive and practically outside of rural women's reach. Women still face enormous barriers and access to communications and information relevant to their realities is very limited.

  7. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Global

    The purpose of this study is to update
    the review of World Bank experience in Irrigation (IEG 1994)
    and to broaden the scope of evaluation to include all water
    lending for agricultural development. Since that first
    study, the proportion of World Bank lending for agricultural
    water management continued to decline, a trend that started
    in the late 1970s when the sub-sector received 11 percent of
    the lending, is falling to less than 2 percent in 2001-03.

  8. Library Resource
    May, 2014

    Country Assistance Strategies (CASs)
    have been periodically reviewed from a variety of different
    perspectives. This review assesses how environment is
    integrated in CASs for 2005 and also compares the progress
    made by 37 countries over the period of 1999-2005. Five
    themes are used to assess the 23 CASs across an established
    methodology also used in previous reviews. The five themes
    are: issues identification, treatment, mainstreaming,

  9. Library Resource
    June, 2012

    In considering the contribution that Rural Local Institutions (RLIs) can make to Sustainable Livelihoods (SLs), authors bring together two important concerns that emerged among development practitioners in the 1980s and 1990s, respectively. RLIs are important for addressing and mitigating factors of insecurity and instability, dealing in particular with various aspects of vulnerability. RLIs can also support participation (voice), conflict mitigation (peace), and external linkage (market expansion).

  10. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Mozambique

    Based on a literature review and expert
    interviews, this paper analyzes the most important climate
    impacts on development goals and explores relevant
    institutions in the context of mainstreaming climate
    adaptation into development assistance in Mozambique.
    Climate variability and change can significantly hinder
    progress toward attaining the Millennium Development Goals
    and poverty aggravates the country's climate

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