In support to World Development Report 2008 "Agriculture for Development" (see as well our WDR 2008 page or go directly to worldbank.org/wdr2008), we started a call to our member organisations for best practices in agriculture and rural development - success stories of interventions in rural development.
This provided the editors and authors of WDR 2008 with empirical evidence and examples of successful activities and approaches in agriculture and rural development in a variety of countries.

Now, we are very pleased to make available to a wider audience close to 70 best practices out of the daily work of our member organisations which successfully helped to fight rural poverty.

Browse the Best Practices by regions

Latin-America and the Caribbean - Middle-East and North Africa - Sub-Saharan Africa - Europe and Central Asia - East Asia and Pacific - South-Asia

Access the case studies according to the chapters of the WDR 2008

Together with the WDR-team we clustered the Best Practices to seven of the eleven chapters of the WDR 2008.

PART I WHAT CAN AGRICULTURE DO FOR DEVELOPMENT?

• Chapter 1: Growth and poverty reduction in agriculture’s three worlds
• Chapter 2: Agriculture’s performance, diversity, and uncertainties
• Chapter 3: Rural households and their pathways out of poverty 

PART II WHAT ARE PROVEN INSTRUMENTS IN USING AGRICULTURE FOR DEVELOPMENT?

• Chapter 4: Realizing gains from trade, price, and subsidy policy reforms
• Chapter 5: Bringing agriculture to the market
• Chapter 6: Supporting smallholder competitiveness through institutional innovations
• Chapter 7: Innovating through science and technology
• Chapter 8: Making agricultural systems more environmentally sustainable
• Chapter 9: Moving beyond the farm
  

PART III HOW TO IMPLEMENT AGRICULTURE-FOR-DEVELOPMENT AGENDAS?

• Chapter 10: Emerging national agendas for agriculture’s three worlds
• Chapter 11: Strengthening governance, from local to global

More Information on the World Development Report 2008 is available at worldbank.org/wdr2008.

Please note that the best practices provided here are a collection of interventions from more than ten different donor agencies. By publishing the whole collection on our website, we support the dissemination of successful approaches to a wider audience, but do not take responsibility for the content of the overviews.