Agriculture Overview: Development news, research, data | World …
2024年10月9日 · Agriculture can help reduce poverty for 75% of the world's poor, who live in rural areas and work mainly in farming. It can raise incomes, improve food security and benefit the environment. The World Bank Group is a leading financier of agriculture, with $8.1 billion in new commitments in 2013.
Cambodian Agriculture in Transition: Opportunities and Risks
Cambodian agriculture is in the midst of a rapid transformation. Agricultural growth averaged 5.3% during 2004-2012, which was among the highest in the world. Growth was driven by a combination of increased yields, more productive use of labor due to mechanization, and the expansion of farmland.
Climate-smart agriculture - World Bank Group
2024年2月26日 · Climate-Smart Agriculture and the World Bank Group. The World Bank has significantly scaled up its engagement and investment in climate-smart agriculture (CSA). In its Climate Change Action Plan (2021- 2025), the World Bank has identified Agriculture, Food, Water and Land as one of the five key transitions needed to tackle the Paris Agreement ...
Agriculture and Food: Development news, research, data | World …
Agriculture and Food Agriculture can help reduce poverty, raise incomes and improve food security for 80% of the world's poor, who live in rural areas and work mainly in farming. The World Bank Group is a leading financier of agriculture.
Agriculture and Rural Development - World Bank Group
The Role of Agriculture and Rural Development in Ending Poverty and Boosting Shared Prosperity Three-quarters of the world’s poor live in rural areas and most earn their living from farming. Enhancing agricultural productivity is thus essential to achieving poverty reduction.
Agriculture Finance & Agriculture Insurance - World Bank Group
Agriculture finance empowers poor farmers to increase their wealth and facilitates the development of food value chains for feeding 9 billion people by 2050. Our work in agriculture finance helps clients provide market-based financial services, and fund long-term and green investments to support sustainable agriculture and agri-food value chains.
5 Key Issues in Agriculture in 2021 - World Bank Group
2021年12月16日 · Farming Insects for Food and Feed. This December, the Bank released a ground-breaking report looking at the valuable role farming insects can play in both food security and climate-smart agriculture, Insect and Hydroponic Farming …
Farming the Future: Harvesting Malaysia’s Agricultural Resilience ...
2024年10月14日 · Malaysia’s economy is expected to grow by 4.9 percent in 2024, up from 3.7 percent in 2023, following a stronger-than-anticipated performance in 1H 2024. This revised forecast is 0.6 percentage points or 14 percent higher than previously predicted, reflecting robust growth in consumption, investment, and trade activity.
Agriculture in Africa: Telling Facts from Myths - World Bank Group
2016年1月22日 · The “Agriculture in Africa– Telling Facts from Myths” project was initiated by the Chief Economist’s Office of the World Bank Africa Region in partnership with the African Development Bank, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, Cornell University, the Food and Agriculture Organization, London School of Economics, Maastricht School of Management, University of Pretoria ...
PHILIPPINES: Vibrant Agriculture is Key to Faster Recovery and …
2020年9月9日 · Titled “Transforming Philippine Agriculture During Covid-19 and Beyond,” the report says that transforming the country’s farming and food systems is even more important during the Covid-19 pandemic to ensure strong food value chains, affordable and nutritious food, and a vibrant rural economy.