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 ...
Agriculture Overview: Development news, research, data | World …
Oct 9, 2024 · 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 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.
Kenya Economic Update: Transforming Agricultural Productivity to ...
Apr 8, 2019 · 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 Finance & Agriculture Insurance - World Bank Group
Policy and Regulatory Interventions: We conduct diagnostic studies including FSAP (Financial Sector Assessment Program) on the state of agriculture finance and produce concrete action plans to reform public policies and regulations in order to create an enabling environment to mobilize agricultural finance. Some examples of policy and legal ...
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 ...
5 Key Issues in Agriculture in 2021 - World Bank Group
Dec 16, 2021 · 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.
Myanmar: Analysis of Farm Production Economics - World Bank …
The study finds that agricultural productivity in Myanmar is low. For example, to harvest rice, one day of work generates only 23 kg of paddy in Myanmar, compared to 62 kg in Cambodia, 429 kg in Vietnam, and 547 kg in Thailand. Farm practices are still largely labor intensive.
Malawi Overview: Development news, research, data | World Bank
Oct 21, 2024 · 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 ...
The Economics of Sustainable Development - World Bank Group
Dec 2, 2024 · Susanna B. Berkouwer is an Assistant Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Their research spans environmental economics and development economics, with projects studying energy efficiency adoption, carbon offsets, electricity grids, and air pollution from energy usage.