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The World Bank/FAO/IFAD 'Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook'; a study on 'The Rural Investment Climate'; two reports on fisheries reform and livestock externalities and a ‘Strategic Environmental Assessment of the Kenya Forests Act’ are now available in our library.
1. Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook, World Bank, FAO, IFAD 2008
The Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook is the collective work of over 100 writers and reviewers from the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). It provides an up-to-date understanding of gender issues and a rich compilation of compelling evidence of good practices and lessons learned.
The sourcebook is aimed at the practitioner both in international and regional development agencies and national governments. More specifically, it speaks to the needs of operational staff who design and implement lending projects and technical officers who design thematic programs and technical assistance packages. It is intended to provide guidance on how to integrate gender into agricultural projects and programs, and captures and expands upon the gender equity and women’s empowerment principles of the World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development.
Please note: This is a preliminary conference version of the Sourcebook. The final e-sourcebook will be available by October 15, 2008.
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2. The Rural Investment Climate: Analysis and Findings, World Bank 2008
This report (1) provides a broad and deep understanding of non-farm activity in rural areas, its constraints, and possible ways to mitigate those constraints; (2) initiates a method of benchmarking the investment climate in rural areas; and (3) advances and sharpens the methodology of such analysis; and (4) provides guidance for analysis conducted by future survey teams and policy analysts.
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3. The Sunken Billions – The Economic Justification for Fisheries Reform, World Bank, FAO 2008
This report is a joint product of the World Bank and FAO, targets an audience of economic decision makers, development professionals and the broader public. It concludes that marine capture fisheries are an underperforming global asset. The study shows that the difference between the potential and actual net economic benefits from marine fisheries is in the order of $50 billion per year. The cumulative economic loss to the global economy over the last three decades is estimated to be in the order of two trillion dollars.
The study argues that improved governance can recapture a substantial proportion of the $50 billion annual economic loss. Rather than being a net drain on the global economy, sustainable fisheries can create an economic surplus, be a driver of economic growth, and a basis for livelihood opportunities.
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4. Livestock Externalities: Public Policy and Investment Needs, World Bank 2008
Driven by population growth, urbanization, and income growth, the demand for animalsource food products is rising fast in the developing world. As a result, the livestock subsector, which already constitutes 30 percent of agricultural GDP in the developing world (about 40 percent globally), is one of the fastest growing agricultural subsectors.
This rapidly increasing demand offers opportunities for rural economic growth and poverty reduction, and could directly benefit the 800 million poor now depending on livestock as part of their income or subsistence food. In addition, the livestock subsector provides traction for about 50 percent of the world’s farmers to cultivate their lands, organic fertilizer for most of the world’s cropland, and converts waste products into highvalue food. The subsector can, therefore, be a critical factor in global agricultural sustainability, poverty reduction, and economic growth.
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5. Strategic Environmental Assessment of the Kenya Forests Act 2005, World Bank 2007
In November of 2005 the Government of Kenya (GOK) ratified a new Forests Act. The Forests Act is an outcome of the Kenya Forest Master plan finalized in 1994. In the new Forests Act the government embraces the concept of participatory forest management.
This institution-centered strategic environmental assessment (SEA) aims to assist the GOK with the implementation of the Forests Act by informing the forest component of the Natural Resource Management project (2007–2012) and informing the Forest Reform Secretariat of priority areas for successful implementation. It provides recommendations in terms of concrete actions necessary to implement the Forests Act in the form of a policy action matrix, and some immediate follow-up steps.
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