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Report of the Fourth Meeting of the CGIAR Finance Committee by CGIAR Finance Committee

“…The Committee reviewed the status of the 1994 Stabilization Program, funding requirements for 1995, and the operational implications of the proposed new financing arrangements.Annexes include a summary of estimated funding for 1994, and of support for the 1994 research agenda from the World Bank and other donors. A cover memorandum describes the set of committee reports placed before ICW94 participants. …”
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Report of the Nineteenth Meeting of the Private Sector Committee, February 27th, 2004, Monheim, Germany by CGIAR Private Sector Committee

“…The agenda included presentations on the Harvest Plus and the Generation challenge programs, an interaction with the CDC chair Kanayo Nwanze, a report on the World Bank CEO dialogue, a presentation on the "Scientific Exchange and Training Program (SKEP) by Bernward Garthoff, and a discussion on PSC membership issues. …”
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Stability of Funding for the CGIAR by CGIAR Secretariat

“…The Secretariat said it was seeking a 2.5% increase in the World Bank matching formula for this purpose, and offered to provide a specific proposal by ICW 1983, if the Group wished. …”
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Letter from CGIAR Chairman Ismail Serageldin to CGIAR Members by Serageldin, Ismail

“…The letter also announced the World Bank Board of Directors' approval of a US$ 50 million contribution to the CGIAR in fiscal 2000, and discussed procedures for setting terms of reference and selecting a successor for the Executive Secretary of the CGIAR, Alexander von der Osten.…”
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Letter from CGIAR Chairman Ismail Serageldin to Heads of Delegation, September 26, 1994 by Serageldin, Ismail

“…He also announced that as a result of additional funding by donors and matching funds from the World Bank, the 1994 core program was fully funded.…”
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Proposal to Transfer Special Projects to Core Restricted Programs by CGIAR Secretariat

“…The transfer would attract additional funding from the US and in the longer run the World Bank, whose contributions were based on total core contributions. …”
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Transformation of Kenya’s agrifood system structure and drivers by Diao, Xinshen, Pauw, Karl, Smart, Jenny, Thurlow, James, Ellis, Mia

“…Kenya’s GDP growth is projected to reach 5.0 percent in 2023 and 5.3 percent in 2024 (World Bank 2023), suggesting that the economy is resuming its pre-pandemic growth trajectory. …”
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Prioritizing agricultural value chains for reviving the food system in Yemen: Input for an agricultural strategy update by Breisinger, Clemens, Raouf, Mariam, Wiebelt, Manfred

“…According to estimates from the International Monetary Fund (IMF 2018) together with information on physical damages from the World Bank-led Yemen Dynamic Damage and Needs Assessment (World Bank et al. 2018), the accumulated impact of the conflict from 2015 to 2018 is estimated to be USD47 billion (in 2014 prices), nearly one and a half times total GDP in 2014. …”
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Striking a balance: Managing El Niño and La Niña in Lao PDR’s agriculture by Sutton, William R., Srivastava, Jitendra P., Rosegrant, Mark W., Koo, Jawoo, Robertson, Richard D.

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Dietary quality and nutrition: Past progress, current and future challenges by Mahrt, Kristi, Headey, Derek D., Ecker, Olivier, Comstock, Andrew R., Tauseef, Salauddin

“…Strong growth was accompanied by a halving of the national poverty rate between 2005 and 2017 from 48.2 to 24.8 percent (CSO, UNDP, and World Bank 2019). COVID19 and the economic and political shocks affecting the country since 2021 have led to an economic contraction: 2021 saw an 18 percent drop in real GDP per capita; in 2022, real GDP per capita was estimated to be 15 percent lower than in 2019 (World Bank 2022). …”
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Seeds of change: The impact of Ethiopia’s direct seed marketing approach on smallholders’ seed purchases and productivity by Mekonnen, Dawit Kelemework, Abate, Gashaw T., Yimam, Seid, Benfica, Rui, Spielman, David J., Place, Frank

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Collecting the dirt on soils : advancements in plot-level soil testing and implications for agricultural statistics by Gourlay, S., Aynekulu, Ermias, Shepherd, Keith D., Carletto, C.

“…The Living Standards Measurement Study of the World Bank implemented a methodological study in Ethiopia, which resulted in an unprecedented data set encompassing a series of subjective indicators of soil quality as well as spectral soil analysis results on plot-specific soil samples for 1,677 households. …”
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Transformational change through REDD readiness in Nepal: realities amidst expectations by Bhandari, Nirmala Singh

“…The national REDD+ program in Nepal was initiated in 2008 by the Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation, under the grant support of FCPF/World Bank. The readiness phase, which marks the first phase in the mechanism, has established an institutional set up for REDD governance and prepared policy documents including a draft REDD strategy. …”
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First partner event of the CGIAR Antimicrobial Resistance Hub: Jonathan Wadsworth by Wadsworth, Jonathan

“…The World Bank Group's Jonathan Wadsworth talks about the importance of the CGIAR Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Hub, which was launched 21 February 2019 at ILRI in Nairobi, Kenya. …”
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SUMMARY OF BRAINSTORMING SESSIONS- SSKE Workshop on Climate Smart Agriculture Nairobi, Kenya by Patel, Himmat Kumar, Lufafa, Abel, Joshi, Arun Kumar, Chhetri, Arun K

“…The brainstorming sessions capture the points highlighted by the delegates during the workshop and do not reflect any commitment or road map for future knowledge exchanges from the World Bank. The Bank would however use the suggestions provided during the sessions to plan for the subsequent programs as part of knowledge exchanges in Climate Smart Agriculture.…”
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AICCRA Senegal field visit programm by Worou, Nadine, Whitbread, Anthony M.

“…This document summarizes the highlights of a field visit by a delegation from the World Bank and AICCRA project partners to Méouane, Senegal, in conjunction with the AICCRA Senegal mid-term review. …”
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Groundwater governance: Tools and approaches & an application to Ethiopia by Ringler, Claudia, ElDidi, Hagar, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Zhang, Wei

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What does it take to scale an agricultural innovation? Loraine Ronchi talks with Agnes Kalibata by Wong, Madeline

“…This blog post is about the week-long discussions and activities included a conversation on agricultural scaling between Loraine Ronchi, a Canadian economist, World Bank secondee, and CGIAR senior policy advisor, and Agnes Kalibata, a renowned African agricultural scientist, policymaker, and global leader internationally recognized in the arena of food systems transformation.…”
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Climate change is happening now, and people are affected in Arab countries: A harsh environment has shaped the cultures in the region by Verner, Dorte, Ashwill, Maximillian, Breisinger, Clemens, Kronik, Jakob, Noble, Ian, Seltur, Banu

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Do labor statistics depend on how and to whom the questions are asked? Results from a survey experiment in Tanzania by Bardasi, Elena, Beegle, Kathleen, Dillon, Andrew, Serneels, Pieter

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