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Gender Analysis of Aquaculture Value Chain in Northeast Vietnam and Nigeria

Reports & Research
Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2009
Vietnam
Land & Food Security
agriculture
farmers
fisheries
food security
land ownership
rural areas
rural development
rural population
urban areas
water management
The report is an initiative of the Agriculture and Rural Development Department (ARD) of the World Bank. Aquaculture is the fastest-growing food sector in the world and is expected to contribute more than 50 percent of total fish consumption by 2020. Just over 90 percent of aquaculture production originates in Asia, and nearly 70 percent in China alone. Efforts to expand aquaculture production to meet the ever increasing worldwide demand for seafood continue.
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China - From Poor Areas to Poor People : China’s Evolving Poverty Reduction Agenda - An Assessment of Poverty and Inequality in China

Training Resources & Tools
March, 2009
China, Eastern Asia, Asia, Oceania
Urban Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
farmers
land rights
natural disasters
rural areas
rural development
rural population
urban areas
urban population
China's progress in poverty reduction over the last 25 years is enviable. One cannot fail to be impressed by what this vast nation of 1.3 billion people has achieved in so little time. In terms of a wide range of indicators, the progress has been remarkable. Poverty in terms of income and consumption has been dramatically reduced. Progress has also been substantial in terms of human development indicators. Most of the millennium development goals have either already been achieved or the country is well on the way to achieving them.
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The World Bank Annual Report 2009

Year in Review, Volume 2. Financial statements

Reports & Research
December, 2009
Land & Corruption
capacity development
corruption
farmers
land
women
The World Bank group, among the world's largest development institutions, is a major source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. In fiscal 2009, the World Bank group sponsored 767 projects with a total commitment of $58.8 billion, distributed in credits, loans, grants, and guarantees. This fiscal year's funding marks a 54 percent increase over the previous fiscal year and a record high for the Bank group.
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Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook

Reports & Research
December, 2009
Land & Corruption
agriculture
capacity development
corruption
decentralization
farmers
fisheries
land ownership
land rights
natural resources management
property rights
rural development
Three out of every four poor people in developing countries live in rural areas, and most of them depend directly or indirectly on agriculture for their livelihoods. In many parts of the world, women are the main farmers or producers, but their roles remain largely unrecognized. The 2008 World development report: agriculture for development highlights the vital role of agriculture in sustainable development and its importance in achieving the millennium development goal of halving by 2015 the share of people suffering from extreme poverty and hunger.
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Crop Output in Vietnam, 1992 to 2006

An Analysis of the Patterns and Sources of Growth

Reports & Research
Training Resources & Tools
January, 2009
Vietnam, Eastern Asia, Oceania
farmers
fisheries
The purpose of this report is to provide a detailed analysis of the behavior of cropping output in agriculture between 1992 and 2006 in Vietnam at both the national and regional level. There are several motivations. The report focuses our analysis on trends with respect to how rapidly output was growing in real terms. The next parts of the chain will link output to farm incomes more directly. First this requires information on the value-added from crop production (gross output value less the cost of intermediate inputs) in order to convert gross revenue into real net income.
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Agricultural Activities, Water, and Gender in Tajikistan's Rural Sector

A Social Assessment of Konibodom, Bobojon Ghafurov, and Yovon

Reports & Research
Training Resources & Tools
August, 2009
Tajikistan, Europe, Central Asia
agriculture
farmers
land reform
land tenure
rural development
water management
This social assessment (SA) was conducted under the Fergana Valley Water Resources Management Project (FVWRMP), which is providing assistance to the Government of Tajikistan to address irrigation and drainage deficiencies in Eastern Sughd. The main SA objectives were to understand how prevailing structures of water provision, land reforms, and gender relations impact rural livelihoods; to analyze experiences in establishing inclusive Water Users Associations (WUAs); and to provide recommendations to FVWRMP with the aim of enhancing its programs.
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Agricultural Price Distortions, Inequality, and Poverty

Introduction and Summary

Reports & Research
Policy Papers & Briefs
August, 2009
Urban Tenure
agriculture
farmers
rural areas
urbanization
Reforms in recent decades have sharply reduced the distortions affecting agriculture in developing countries, particularly by cuts to agricultural export taxes and by some reductions in government assistance to agriculture in high-income countries, but international trade in farm products continues to be far more distorted than trade in nonfarm goods. This paper summarizes a series of empirical studies that focus on the effects of the remaining distortions to world merchandise trade for poverty and inequality, especially in developing countries.
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Renewable Natural Resources

Practical Lessons for Conflict-Sensitive Development

Reports & Research
Policy Papers & Briefs
September, 2009
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
Urban Tenure
adjudication
capacity development
climate change
common property
farmers
food security
land degradation
land law
land management
land rights
land tenure
local communities
property rights
rural areas
sustainable development
urbanization
This paper explores how a 'conflict and violence sensitive' framework in project assessment, design and implementation facilitates early identification and mitigation of negative consequences of competition and dispute, and promotes sustainable development over the longer term. It discusses the role of renewable resources in perpetuating conflict and violence, and distills lessons from selected development programming experiences in managing conflict risks associated with these dynamics.
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Agricultural Protection and Poverty in Indonesia

A General Equilibrium Analysis

Reports & Research
Policy Papers & Briefs
June, 2009
Indonesia, Eastern Asia, Oceania
agriculture
farmers
rural areas
A general equilibrium modeling approach is used to estimate the effects within Indonesia of unilateral and global trade liberalization, including effects on poverty incidence. It is concluded that global reform of trade policy in all commodities is a significant potential source of poverty reduction for Indonesia. The poor rural and urban have a strong interest in global trade policy reform. If Indonesia were to liberalize unilaterally, poverty incidence also will decline but the effect is small.
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Welfare and Poverty Effects of Global Agricultural and Trade Policies Using the Linkage Model

Reports & Research
Policy Papers & Briefs
June, 2009
agriculture
farmers
This paper analyzes the economic effects of agricultural price and merchandise trade policies around the world as of 2004 on global markets, net farm incomes, and national and regional economic welfare and poverty, using the global economy wide Linkage model, new estimates of agricultural price distortions for developing countries, and poverty elasticity's approach. It addresses two questions: to what extent are policies as of 2004 still reducing rewards from farming in developing countries and thereby adding to inequality across countries in farm household incomes?