Rice is increasingly significant in the World Bank Group’s (WBG) Climate Change Action Plan (2021–2025), focusing on climate-smart rice-farming systems and value chains. At COP28 in 2023, the World Bank...
Rice is a crucial staple food globally, but its cultivation demands significant land and water resources and contributes to over 10 percent of human-induced methane emissions. Sustainable rice production...
Agriculture has been a key driver in poverty reduction over the past two decades in Bangladesh, although the growth of sector has slowed down since 2010. In addition, the sector is highly vulnerable to...
The objective of the Third Phase of the West Africa Food System Resilience Program (FSRP) for Senegal is to increase preparedness against food insecurity and improve the resilience of food systems in Senegal...
The development objectives of the Republic Emergency Food Crisis Response Project for Central African are to increase food production and to improve resilience of targeted smallholder farmers and food...
The development objective of the Tree Crop Diversification Project for Ghana is to improve economic, climate, and social resilience in selected tree crop value chains. The project comprises of four components...
The Jharkhand State Livelihoods Promotion Society is rolling-out solar powered community lift irrigation systems to provide access to irrigation to 23,580 farming families in 13 districts of the state...
This series of two reports contains market and viability analyses to help relevant stakeholders identify the best opportunities for supporting sustainable and profitable tree crop production systems (in...
This paper uses two years of agriculture census data to build a panel dataset that consists of all the small towns in Bhutan. This dataset is used to estimate the impact of irrigation gaps and drought...
China has suffered degradation of its ecosystems and landscapes through its deep history, including in the past few decades. This degradation seriously affects the structure and function of ecosystems...
The objective of the Sindh Water and Agriculture Transformation Project for Pakistan is to increase agricultural productivity and improve water resources management throughout Sindh province through a...
Ratings for the Second Rural Development Program Project for Solomon Islands were as follows: outcome and Bank performance was moderately satisfactory, and monitoring and evaluation (M and E) quality was...
The development objective of the Improved Rural Connectivity Project for Zambia is to improve rural accessibility for communities in the selected areas. Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures...
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted survey and data systems globally and especially in low- and middle-income countries. Lockdowns necessitated remote data collection as demand for data on the impacts...
The need for transforming agriculture and the food sector from current humanitarian aid dependence to a more development-oriented growth pathway remains a high priority in South Sudan, even as the near-term...
O cajú é uma cultura importante para os produtores em Moçambique, 1.3 milhões de famílias que praticam esta cultura e um total de 6.5 milhões de pessoas que em parte dependem do cajú para o seu sustento...
El sector agropecuario colombiano puede contribuir más al crecimiento económico, la seguridad alimentaria, la reducción de pobreza y la gestión ambiental del país. Cerca del 56% de la población de Colombia...
The development objective of the North Eastern Region Power System Improvement Project for India is to increase the delivery of electricity at the boundaries of the power distribution network in the participating...