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.
Agriculture and Rural Development - World Bank Group
Policies, like agricultural export bans, which insulate producers (as well as consumers) from international price increases, are likely to be particularly harmful to the rural poor. Land and returns to scale in agriculture: The 2007/08 commodity price boom triggered a global “land rush,” with investors especially eager to acquire ...
5 Key Issues in Agriculture in 2021 - World Bank Group
2021年12月16日 · The World Bank took action to fight food insecurity around the world, providing immediate aid to vulnerable households and more long-term support to farmers in the form of seeds, fertilizer, and other agricultural inputs. COVID-19 also pushed more people into poverty and made the poor poorer around the world.
Malawi’s Agricultural Commercialization for Rural Economic …
Backing agricultural transformation. The 16 th Edition of the World Bank’s Malawi Economic Monitor (MEM) recognizes the need to transform Malawi’s agricultural sector into a more viable industry. “The current structure of household agricultural production in Malawi offers no pathway to sustained poverty reduction for many, if not most ...
Kenya Economic Update: Transforming Agricultural Productivity to ...
2019年4月8日 · Enhance access to agricultural financing: While Kenya represents a vibrant and enabling market for FinTech, the report notes the more traditional banking that is needed to service commercial agriculture is lacking. About 4% of commercial bank lending is for agribusiness, despite most Kenyans being employed in agriculture or agribusiness.
Agriculture and Food: Development news, research, data | World …
Agricultural development is one of the most powerful tools to end extreme poverty, boost shared prosperity and feed a projected 9.7 billion people by 2050. Growth in the agriculture sector is two to four times more effective in raising incomes among the poorest than other sectors.
Agricultural Innovation & Technology Hold Key to Poverty …
2019年9月16日 · In developed countries, investment in agricultural R&D was equivalent to 3.25 percent of agricultural GDP in 2011, compared with 0.52 percent in developing counties. Among the latter group, Brazil and China invested relatively high amounts into agricultural R&D, while Africa and South Asia had the lowest spending relative to agricultural GDP.
Malawi Overview: Development news, research, data | World Bank
2024年10月21日 · The agricultural sector, which employs most of the workforce and continues to rely primarily on rain-fed production, faces declining productivity and real income. Diversification efforts and increased irrigation are proceeding slowly, making the country more susceptible to economic and climatic shocks, and further exacerbating socioeconomic ...
Internship - World Bank Group
The Bank Internship Program typically seeks candidates for: Operations (Front Line) in the following fields: economics, finance, human development (public health, education, nutrition and population), social sciences (anthropology, sociology), agriculture, environment, engineering, urban planning, natural resources management, private sector ...
World Bank Scholarships Program
The World Bank’s Development Economics Vice Presidency (DEC) provides scholarships to students and young researchers, contributing to the World Bank’s mission of forging new dynamic approaches to capacity development and knowledge sharing in the developing world. It is an important component of ...