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  1. Library Resource
    March, 2016
    Global

    Rice is the world’s most heavily
    consumed staple crop. Its production requires enormous
    volumes of water and emits large quantities of atmospheric
    methane, a greenhouse gas some many times more powerful than
    carbon dioxide - particularly during a medium term period of
    about seven years. In a global context of growing
    population, increasingly scarce water resources, and climate
    change, more productive, sustainable, and efficient rice

  2. 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

  3. Library Resource
    June, 2013
    Global

    This report provides recommendations on
    how to better manage ongoing changes in livestock
    development. First, it presents an overview of the main
    trends that can be expected to drive the sector over the
    next decades. Second it discusses the negative or positive
    social, environmental, and health repercussions of those
    trends, and the institutional, policy, and technical
    requirements needed to manage them. It concludes with a

  4. Library Resource
    January, 2014
    Global

    The World Bank had commissioned an
    independent team to evaluate and assess the future role of
    PROFISH, the Global Program on Fisheries. The evaluation
    team found that PROFISH, since its inception in 2005, had
    made excellent progress in raising World Bank, bilateral
    donor and client country awareness of fisheries development
    needs, contributed fisheries and aquaculture content to
    global development products and assisted World Bank country

  5. 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

  6. Library Resource
    March, 2013
    Global, Vietnam

    This report directly provide
    recommendations for improvement of the quality of the
    regional master socio-econsomic development plan and
    national laud use plans for Vietnam, to the year 2020. It
    provides analysis and assessment of the
    reviewed-adjusted-ammended socio-economic development plan
    for the Mekong Delta, which is aimed at improvement of the
    quality and feasibility of regional socio-economic

  7. Library Resource
    July, 2014
    Global

    At the request of the World Bank's
    Executive Board, the Bank's Operations Evaluation
    Department (OED) has been conducting an evaluation of the
    Bank's involvement in global programs. The Phase 1
    Report titled The World Bank's Approach to Global
    Programs focused on the strategic and programmatic
    management of the Bank's global portfolio of 70
    programs in five Bank Networks (a cluster of closely related

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