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WDR 2010

Climate change is one of the most complex challenges of our young century. No country is immune. No country alone can take on the interconnected challenges posed by climate change, including controversial political decisions, daunting technological change, and far-reaching global consequences. As the planet warms, rainfall patterns shift and extreme events such as droughts, floods, and forest fires become more frequent. Millions in densely populated coastal areas and in island nations will lose their homes as the sea level rises. Poor people in Africa, Asia, and elsewhere face prospects of tragic crop failures; reduced agricultural productivity; and increased hunger, malnutrition, and disease. As a multilateral institution whose mission is inclusive and sustainable development, the World Bank Group has a responsibility to try to explain some of those interconnections across disciplines—development economics, science, energy, ecology, technology, finance, and effective international regimes and governance. With 186 members, the World Bank Group faces the challenge, every day, of building cooperation among vastly different states, the private sector, and civil society to achieve common goods. This 32nd World Developm …

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Published 2010 by: World Bank

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The State of Food and Agriculture 2009: Livestock in the balance

Livestock contribute 40 percent of the global value of agricultural output and support the livelihoods and food security of almost a billion people. Rapidly rising incomes and urbanization, combined with underlying population growth, are driving demand for meat and other animal products in many developing countries.

These changes and the speed with which they are occurring have created systemic risks for livelihoods, human and animal health and the environment. To meet the challenges and constraints of the twenty-first century, the livestock sector requires appropriate institutions, research, development interventions and governance that reflect the diversity within the sector and the multiple demands placed upon it.

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Rapid growth in the livestock sector…

Livestock sector is expanding rapidly, driven by (i) population growth, (ii) rising affluence and (iii) urbanization. This growth is expected to continue in the future.

From 1980 to 2005, developing country meat consumption increased from 14 to 31 kg/capita/year, up by 120%. Similarly, consumption per capita increased by 65% in milk and 220% in eggs- no such noteworthy increase for cereal …

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Published 2009 by: Food and Agriculture Organization

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Food Safety and Agricultural Health Management in CIS Countries: Completing the Transition

This study aspires to offer guidance to policy makers in transition economies charged with developing sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) policies and to the staffs of the development agencies that provide them with support.

 

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Published 2007 by: World Bank

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Global Monitoring Report 2009: A Development Emergency

The global financial crisis, the most severe since the Great Depression, is rapidly turning into a human and development crisis. The financial crisis originated in the developed world, but it has spread quickly and inexorably to the developing world, sparing no country. Increasingly it appears that this will not be a short-lived crisis.

The poor countries are especially vulnerable, as they lack the resources to respond with ameliorative actions. The crisis poses serious threats to their hard-won gains in boosting economic growth and achieving progress toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Poor people typically are the hardest hit, and have the least cushion. For millions of them, the crisis puts at risk their very survival.

 

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Published 2009 by: World Bank

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World Development Report 2009: Reshaping Economic Geography

The Report at a Glance – Density, Distance, and Division

Growing cities, ever more mobile people, and increasingly specialized products are integral to development. These changes have been most noticeable in North America, Western Europe, and Northeast Asia. But countries in East and South Asia and Eastern Europe are now experiencing changes that are similar in their scope and speed. World Development Report 2009: Reshaping Economic Geography concludes that such transformations will remain essential for economic success in other parts of the developing world and should be encouraged.

 

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Published 2009 by: World Bank

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The State of Food Insecurity 2008: High food prices and food security – threats and opportunities

 

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Published 2008 by: Food and Agriculture Organization

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State of Food and Agriculture – Biofuels: prospects, risks and opportunities

The 2008 State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) report der FAO is entitled "Biofuels: prospects, risks and opportunities".  The State of Food and Agriculture 2008 explores the implications of the recent rapid growth in production of biofuels based on agricultural commodities. The boom in liquid biofuels has been largely driven by policies in developed countries in support of climate-change mitigation, energy security and agricultural development. The growing demand for agricultural commodities for the production of biofuels is having significant repercussions on agricultural markets, and concerns are mounting over their negative impact on the food security of millions of people across the world. At the same time, the environmental impacts of biofuels are also coming under closer scrutiny. But biofuels also offer the opportunity for agricultural and rural development — if appropriate policies and investments are put in place.

Further information is available from the FAO at: http://www.fao.org./sof/sofa/

 

Source: http://www.fao.org./sof/sofa/

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Published 2008 by: Food and Agriculture Organization

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World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development

Agriculture is a vital development tool for achieving the Millennium Development Goal that calls for halving by 2015 the share of people suffering from extreme poverty and hunger.

That is the overall message of this year’s World Development Report (WDR), the 30th in the series. 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. This Report provides guidance to governments and the international community on designing and implementing agriculture-for-development agendas that can make a difference in the lives of hundreds of millions of rural poor.

 

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Published 2007 by: World Bank

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EU Strategy for Africa: Towards a Euro-African Pact to Accelerate Africa's Development, October 2005

Europe is Africa’s long-standing partner and closest neighbour and Africa’s development is also very much in Europe’s interest, economically, politically and strategically. Attaining the MDGs is therefore a shared objective and a common goal. The EU – all 25 Member States and the European Commission – should now together seize the unique opportunity created by the existing dynamics in Africa and present a common, coherent and comprehensive strategy to make Africa the first priority for implementation of the Commission’s “MDG package” and the “European Consensus”, the EU’s new development policy. The objective of this communication is to present a long-term EU Strategy to promote the achievement of the MDGs in Africa to be adopted by the European Council in December 2005. This Strategy should, in turn, form the basis of a new Euro-Africa Pact, which the EU should aim to endorse at an EU-Africa Summit in Lisbon. The EU Strategy for Africa is based on extensive consultations with the African Union (AU) and Africa’s Regional Economic Communities (RECs) and should fully harness the potential of the recently revised Cotonou Agreement, the Euro-Mediterranean partnership and the European Neighbourho …

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Published 2005 by: European Commission

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Human Development Report 2004

Human development is first and foremost about allowing people to lead the kind of life they choose—and providing them with the tools and opportunities to make those choices. In recent years Human Development Report has argued strongly that this is as much a question of politics as economics—from protecting human rights to deepening democracy. Unless people who are poor and marginalized—who more often than not are members of religious or ethnic minorities or migrants—can influence political action at local and national levels, they are unlikely to get equitable access to jobs, schools, hospitals, justice, security and other basic services.

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Cultural liberty and human development Challenges for cultural liberty Building multicultural democracies Confronting movements for cultural domination Globalization and cultural choice  

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Published 2004 by: United Nations Development Programme

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