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October 14, 2005
Agriculture Investment Sourcebook: Land Administration Policy and Markets -
Access to land plays an important role in improving agricultural productivity, achieving sustainable poverty reduction, and creating broader economic development. This overview provides a rationale for investments in land administration and reform, rev ...
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http://www-esd.worldbank.org/ais/index.cfm?Page=mdisp&m=9&p=0
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October 14, 2005
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Agriculture Investment Sourcebook: Managing Risk, Vulnerability and Disaster
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Public intervention can facilitate better risk management through improved information systems, development of financial markets, promotion of market-based price and yield insurance schemes, and ensuring that the poor are able to benefit from these int ...
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http://www-esd.worldbank.org/ais/index.cfm?Page=mdisp&m=10&p=0
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October 14, 2005
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Agriculture Investment Sourcebook: Scaling up Agr. Inv. in the Bank's Changing Internal Environment
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Future investments must conform to new realities in the Bank's lending environment, new processes in country dialogue, such as Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs), and a renewed commitment to quality. This module explores some of the process opti ...
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http://www-esd.worldbank.org/ais/index.cfm?Page=mdisp&m=11&p=0
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October 14, 2005
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Agriculture Investment Sourcebook: Agricultural Science and Technology
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The challenge in deciding future investments in agricultural R&D is to maintain past productivity gains, while supporting technological innovation in more diverse agricultural systems that will differentiate products and add value by processing, to ...
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http://www-esd.worldbank.org/ais/index.cfm?Page=mdisp&m=2&p=0
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October 14, 2005
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Agriculture Investment Sourcebook: Agricultural Policy and Institutional Capacity
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The World Bank's Rural Development Strategy identifies two important elements of successful poverty reduction creation of an investment climate conducive to rural growth, and empowerment of the poor to share in the benefits of that growth. Investments ...
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http://www-esd.worldbank.org/ais/index.cfm?Page=mdisp&m=1&p=0
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October 14, 2005
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Agriculture Investment Sourcebook: Agricultural Extension and Information Services
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Globally, ministries of agriculture, universities, and the private sector employ more than 600,000 extension agents (Swanson, Farmer, and Bahal 1990). In the past, extension services, largely public, were equated with the transfer of agricultural produ ...
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http://www-esd.worldbank.org/ais/index.cfm?Page=mdisp&m=3&p=0
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October 14, 2005
Beyond the City: The Rural Contribution to Development in Latin America and the Caribbean-
The development of rural economic activities and communities is pivotal for national well being. In Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) history, rural societies have been at the centre of both the origins of prosperity and of social upheaval. Rural communi ...
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October 14, 2005
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Making Agricultural Trade Liberalization Work for the Poor
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It has become a cliché that we live in an interconnected world, but cliché or not, globalization in its many and complex dimensions is one of the defining facets of our times. To make economic globalization work smoothly, sovereign countries ...
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October 14, 2005
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Agriculture and poverty reduction: Unlocking the Potential - A DFID policy paper
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The UK is committed to supporting agriculture as a means of reducing poverty and achieving the Millennium Development Goals. This Paper shows why agriculture is important, summarises what we are already doing, and outlines our plans to overcome the fac ...
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October 14, 2005
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Fighting Rural Poverty
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With poverty reduction as the central objective of EC development policy, there is a need to address more systematically and in a more comprehensive manner rural development concerns. In fact, (i) poverty and hunger are mainly rural problems, (ii) environ ...
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