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  1. Library Resource
    May, 2012
    India

    Irrigation has made a major contribution
    to poverty reduction in the past decades, enabling higher
    yields and better nutrition. Despite these achievements,
    large-scale irrigation schemes have usually yielded low
    returns and attracted negative publicity because of their
    adverse environmental and social impacts. As a result, the
    Bank has largely switched its support for irrigation away
    from new construction toward rehabilitation and policy

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    May, 2012
    Asia, Central Asia, Europe, Eastern Europe

    This study reviews how the integration of environmental concerns into agriculture and forestry is progressing in the countries of Southeastern Europe (SEE) and of Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia (EECCA) since 2000 and assesses prospects for the future. The present report is a contribution to the environment for Europe process. At the Fifth Ministerial Conference in Kiev in 2003, participants decided to pay greater attention to the needs of the EECCA and adopted an environmental strategy for the sub-region.

  3. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Bangladesh

    Bangladesh represents a success story
    among developing countries. Poverty incidence, which was as
    high as 57 percent at the beginning of the 1990s, had
    declined to 49 percent in 2000. This trend accelerated
    subsequently, reducing the poverty headcount rate to 40
    percent in 2005. The primary contributing factor was robust
    and stable economic growth along with no worsening of
    inequality. Respectable GDP growth that started at the

  4. Library Resource
    June, 2014
    Costa Rica

    This paper discusses the social impacts
    of Costa Rica's Payments for Environmental Services
    (PSA) program and their effect on rural poverty. Although
    the analysis is hampered by significant information gaps, we
    believe that the PSA Program has probably managed to have an
    impact on the poor. This impact is almost certainly positive
    on the poor who were able to participate, but is difficult
    to quantify. However, except for very few cases, it seems

  5. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Kenya

    This assessment of poverty and
    inequality comes at an important juncture for Kenya. The
    December 2007 elections and subsequent pronouncements of the
    newly formed Grand Coalition have underlined the salience of
    these issues to ordinary Kenyans, and for policy makers. The
    violence in early 2008 highlighted the importance of
    addressing poverty and inequality as major goals in their
    own right, but also for instrumental reasons, as major goals

  6. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Africa

    The objective of this paper is to
    determine the ability of farmers in Africa to detect climate
    change, and to ascertain how they have adapted to whatever
    climate change they believe has occurred. The paper also
    asks farmers whether they perceive any barriers to
    adaptation and attempts to determine the characteristics of
    those farmers who, despite claiming to have witnessed
    climate change, have not yet responded to it. The study is

  7. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Ethiopia

    This paper provides evidence from one of
    the poorest countries of the world that the property rights
    matter for efficiency, investment, and growth. With all land
    state-owned, the threat of land redistribution never appears
    far off the agenda. Land rental and leasing have been made
    legal, but transfer rights remain restricted and the
    perception of continuing tenure insecurity remains quite
    strong. Using a unique panel data set, this study

  8. Library Resource
    August, 2012

    Despite the large potential of the
    agricultural sector in Eastern Europe and Central Asia,
    production is still limited by a lack of technical knowledge
    and, in many cases, an unwillingness to change agricultural
    practices inherited from Soviet times. The problem has more
    than one cause: poor technology, management skills, and
    quality of produce prevent farms from joining agribusiness
    supply chains. Limited access to financing further prevents

  9. Library Resource
    June, 2014
    Liberia

    This Policy Memorandum provides policy
    advice to the government of Liberia (GOL) in an effort to
    mainstream gender issues in policies, programs, and projects
    supporting agricultural production and value-chain
    development. It is organized as follows. Section I reviews
    women's roles in Liberian agriculture and agricultural
    value chains, drawing on a variety of data sources,
    including the 2007 Core Welfare Indicator Questionnaire

  10. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Sri Lanka

    The issue of regional differences in
    development has moved to the center of the development
    debate in Sri Lanka, partly after the release of regional
    poverty data. For the past many years, there have been
    significant and increasing differences between the Western
    province and the rest of the country in terms of per capita
    income levels, growth rates of per capita income, poverty
    rates, and the structure of provincial economies. The

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