- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- New Policies to Help Transform Malawi’s Agriculture Sector
Agriculture significantly contributes to employment, economic growth, export earnings, poverty reduction, food security, and nutrition Turning the country’s agriculture sector into a robust one is therefore a major development target for Malawi
- Pakistan Agriculture Food System: The World Bank Group
Pakistan Agriculture Food System: Knowledge Products Agriculture in Pakistan remains by far the biggest employer of labor and is an especially important sector from a social, livelihood and foreign exchange perspective
- Cambodian Agriculture in Transition: Opportunities and Risks
Cambodian agriculture is in a midst of rapid transformation Its continued success will remain a key engine in reducing poverty and boosting shared prosperity in Cambodia Data from Cambodian Agriculture in Transition, co-financed by the World Bank and Australian government, highlights the opportunities and risks View the slideshow
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