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 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.

2018年6月19日 · “A productive and climate-smart agriculture sector requires an effective enabling environment. Providing that environment is the role of the Government,” said Holger Kray, head of the World Bank’s Africa Agriculture Policy Unit, and study leader. “Uganda’s agriculture sector may not be transformed overnight.

Cambodia’s poverty headcount declined from 53% in 2004 to 18% in 2012, lifting four million people out of poverty. More than 60% of poverty reduction was a result of positive developments in the agriculture sector. Farm wages grew by 206% (non-farm wages up 60%) in 2005-2013, converging with salaries in other sectors.

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 ...

Land and returns to scale in agriculture: The 2007/08 commodity price boom triggered a global “land rush,” with investors especially eager to acquire agricultural land in Sub- Saharan Africa. Analysis of new data from Ethiopia shows that, even at the peak of the land rush, the bulk of land transferred to investors went to Ethiopians rather ...

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.

Farm practices are still largely labor intensive. In Ayeyarwady, farmers spend more than 100 days per hectare on monsoon rice paddy compared to 52 days in Cambodia, 22 days in Vietnam, and 11 days in Thailand. Myanmar’s wages are still very low compared to international standards with daily wage at $2 in the Delta and Dry Zones.

Sustainable agricultural practices through watershed and rainfed agriculture development (Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand), soil reclamation efforts (Uttar Pradesh) and, more recently, improved groundwater management practices (for instance, in the upcoming Rajasthan Agriculture Competitiveness Project).

2021年3月16日 · Digital agriculture is helping to improve yields, cut food loss and waste, and help farmers receive fair pay for what they produce. This is because when farmers get the information they need in a timely manner, they can ensure food is sent to the right market and sold at a fair price. Digital technology and the near instantaneous sharing of knowledge it brings gives them that information ...