- Agriculture Overview: Development news, research, data | World Bank
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
- Federal farm subsidies: What the data says - USAFacts
In 2024, the government provided $9 3 billion in subsidy payments to farmers for commodity crops Subsidies made up 5 9% of total farm earnings that year, with the most funding going to corn, soybeans, and cotton What are farm subsidies? Farm subsidies, also known as agricultural subsidies, are financial support from the federal government to farmers and agricultural businesses Subsidies
- Agriculture and Food: Development news, research, data | World Bank
Agriculture and Food 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
- Climate-Smart Agriculture - World Bank Group
Climate-smart agriculture Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is an integrated approach to managing landscapes—cropland, livestock, forests and fisheries--that address the interlinked challenges of food security and climate change Overview Climate change and food and nutrition insecurity pose two of the greatest development challenges of our time
- Mozambique Overview: Development news, research, data | World Bank
The World Bank partnership with Mozambique aims to support the country’s progress toward greener, more resilient, and inclusive development
- Agriculture: A Driver of Growth and Poverty Reduction
Modernizing agriculture is critical to empowering the poor and vulnerable Providing smallholder farmers with better extension services, quality inputs, and credit will improve their livelihoods and further contribute to poverty reduction
- Agriculture and Rural Development - World Bank Group
The Role of Agriculture and Rural Development in Ending Poverty and Boosting Shared Prosperity Three-quarters of the world’s poor live in rural areas and most earn their living from farming Enhancing agricultural productivity is thus essential to achieving poverty reduction
- What does the Forest Service do? | USAFacts
The Forest Service (FS) is a subdivision of the US Department of Agriculture responsible for managing public lands in national forests and grasslands The agency's mission is to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of these lands to meet the needs of present and future generations It provides leadership in the protection, management, and use of the nation's forest resources
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