This volume examines the causes and consequences of drought on Lebanon’s agriculture. Lebanon is getting hotter and dryer. Projections show droughts will likely become more frequent and severe. Climate...
Droughts in Morocco are increasing in frequency and intensity. Associated with global climate change, this trend will likely be more evident in the future. Drought damage to the agricultural sector affects...
Climate change and recurrent climate events are making water-scarce countries like Tunisia and its agricultural lands drier and more vulnerable to drought. These recurrent climate events are also known...
This report evaluates the outcomes of World Bank Group support to Liberia from its postwar reengagement in 2003 through 2011. Following re-engagement in 2003, the World Bank Group strategy in Liberia initially...
Environmental sustainability has become increasingly central to the World Bank's mission over the past several decades, particularly after the 1987 Brundtland report articulating the principles of sustainable...
With the goal of increasing effectiveness in reducing poverty in all of its forms the World Bank undertakes studies about gender equality. This report is one of several already undertaken in other countries...
The fall issue of the annual review on the environment highlights the World Bank's work in FY98 in the promotion of sustainable use of resources. Each operational region and the International Finance Corporation...