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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
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
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
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
Revitalizing Agriculture for growth, jobs, and food security in Afghanistan Investing in agriculture in Afghanistan is critical as the sector accounts for a quarter of the national economy, and plays an important role in the livelihoods of the approximately 76% of the population and nearly 90% of the poor living in rural areas
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
Who is the American farmer? - USAFacts According to the Department of Agriculture (USDA), there are 3 4 million agricultural “producers,” or the farmers and workers involved in making decisions from planting to harvesting to marketing on these farms
5 Key Issues in Agriculture in 2021 - World Bank Group As 2021 ends, we take a retrospective look at five topics that were covered in our analytical work this year These issues represent just a fragment of the World Bank's work, but they are key to reducing poverty and hunger while slowing climate change