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  1. Library Resource
    September, 2013
    Africa

    This paper sheds light on how to harvest
    the "youth dividend" in Sub-Saharan Africa by
    creating jobs in agriculture. The agriculture that attracts
    the youth will have to be profitable, competitive, and
    dynamic. These are the same characteristics needed for
    agriculture to deliver growth, to improve food security, and
    to preserve a fragile natural environment. With higher
    priority accorded to implementation of well-designed public

  2. Library Resource
    March, 2014
    Latin America and the Caribbean

    The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC)
    region has been in many ways successful in increasing
    agriculture production and competitiveness, as well as
    tackling nutrition. Mainstreaming nutrition considerations
    into agriculture operations can increase the availability of
    and access to nutritious food, which can improve the
    nutrition status of individuals. The challenge is how to
    bridge the gap that exists in region between being an

  3. Library Resource
    February, 2013
    Bangladesh

    Awami League's Election Manifesto
    2008 appropriately recognizes the importance of ensuring
    food security for all in Bangladesh. Food Security requires
    increasing agricultural growth which in turn is a key factor
    in reducing poverty in the country. Food security also
    requires increasing agricultural production and protecting
    consumers. Sustained production increases, in turn, require
    technology-driven increases in the productivity of crops

  4. Library Resource

    Performance, Challenges, and Options

    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    November, 2015
    Nicaragua, Latin America and the Caribbean

    This work summarizes background papers prepared for the World Bank Group with significant input from government counterparts and other development partners. It takes stock of major recent developments and argues that a lot has been achieved in the last decade in terms of production of commodities for export and food consumption, with favorable impact on rural poverty reduction. It also argues that the two factors driving the recent agricultural performance, namely favorable international prices and expansion of the agricultural frontier, have reached their limits.

  5. Library Resource
    August, 2013
    Nicaragua

    The report reviews basic growth, as
    being one of four pillars for Nicaragua's poverty
    reduction strategy. The well-being of the rural poor will
    continue its dependence on - to a great extent -
    agriculture. The study analyzes main agricultural
    development aspects, and stipulates the broad basic growth
    may be enhanced by strengthening agricultural
    competitiveness. Yet, export growth is key to economic

  6. Library Resource
    October, 2013

    There are many reasons to believe that
    Syrian agriculture has great potential for the future. The
    liberalisation of agriculture in Eastern Europe delivered
    rapid growth in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Countries
    such as Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Hungary,
    Kazachstan, Romania and Russia achieved labour productivity
    growth in constant US$ terms of over 7 percent between 1998
    and 2004. Syria has a global comparative advantage in fruit

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2015
    Mongolia

    Mongolia’s ongoing economic transition generates levels of uncertainty that often inhibit investments in
    productivity and marketing improvements on the part of producers and processors. This study was undertaken to identify gaps in policies, laws, regulations, and practices from production
    to the consumer end point, and to stimulate discussions about how to leverage the agriculture sector’s
    potential contributions to national development objectives.

  8. Library Resource
    August, 2013

    The Chesapeake Bay is the largest and
    historically most productive estuary in the United States.
    It is approximately 200 miles long and 35 mile wide at it
    broadest point. The Bay's watershed includes parts of
    six states (Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania,
    Virginia, West Virginia, and the entire District of
    Columbia. This area encompasses 64,000 square-miles, 150
    major rivers and streams and has a population of 15.1

  9. Library Resource
    July, 2015
    Africa, Eastern Africa

    Africa is estimated to have great
    potential for agricultural production, but there are a
    number of constraints inhibiting the development of that
    potential. Spatial data are increasingly important in the
    realization of potential as well as the associated
    constraints. With crop production data generated at 5-minute
    spatial resolution, the paper applies the spatial tobit
    regression model to estimate the possible impacts of

  10. Library Resource
    April, 2014
    Pakistan

    This policy paper focuses on the
    incentive framework for Pakistani agriculture, with emphasis
    on trade and price policies. It first presents a synthesis
    of major trends in the performance of the sector and
    analyzes Pakistan's extraordinarily complex, opaque and
    discretionary, and continually-changing trade regime. It
    presents a disaggregated analysis of the border measures for
    the selected products (trade and price interventions vary by

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