Search Results - "World Bank"

Report on the forage and feed product flow in Kenya (Busia, Bungoma, Kakamega and Siaya Counties) by Kinyua Muriuki, Kelvin

“…Kenyan economy expanded 4.7% in 2017 and 6% in 2018 (World Bank, 2018). This growth was mainly supported by growth in agricultural output, among other steady economic growths such as industrial activity and service sectors. …”
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The extent and distribution of joint conservation-development funding in the tropics by Reed, J., Oldekop, J., Barlow, J., Carmenta, R., Geldmann, J., Ickowitz, A., Narulita, S., Rahman, S.A., Vianen, J. van, Yanou, M., Sunderland, T.C.H.

“…Achieving these goals is impeded by limited funding and a lack of information on where financial flows to integrate environment and development are targeted. We analyze World Bank and Global Environment Facility data to investigate the extent and distribution of such funding across the tropics. …”
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Investor Deal Book by Dahl, Hauke

“…The public sector and donors cannot handle this alone; the private finance and investment sector needs to increase its financial commitments. Under the World Bank-funded AICCRA project, we have set up Zambia’s first science-driven accelerator program for climate-smart agribusinesses, where the aim is to provide technical assistance as well as de-risking funds to scale climate-smart agricultural research innovations as well as to catalyze private finance into these agribusinesses to increase their impact tailor-made technical assistance to strengthen the commercial capacity as well as the sustainability performance of our Accelerator Partners. …”
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Training of Trainers (ToT) on Enhancing National Climate Services (ENACTS) Maprooms for Users in Kenya by Grossi, Amanda, Dinku, Tufa

“…The workshop, which was organized as part of the World Bank’s Accelerating the Impact of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) project, brought together 21 participants from national and county KMD offices, the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Fisheries (MOAL&F), and the Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) to be trained on KMD’s existing suite of free online ENACTS Maprooms. …”
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Historical analysis of governance at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) by Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio, Centurion, Miriam, Bisogno, Marcelo

“…That dialogue led to the consideration of several regional financial institutions, including the 1940 Inter-American Bank, which was the predecessor of both the World Bank and the IMF. After the IDB was created in 1959, that dialogue was extended since the 1970s to the current partners from Europe and Asia, making the bank a global institution.…”
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Despite COVID-19, food consumption remains steady in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by de Brauw, Alan, Hirvonen, Kalle, Abate, Gashaw T.

“…These surveys suggest large proportions of respondents are facing falling incomes; the World Bank reports declines in incomes and food security where they have conducted phone surveys.…”
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Index Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) Marsabit Household Survey by Alulu, Vincent, Jensen, Nathaniel D., Ikegami, Munenobu

“…Data collection was made possible, in part, by support provided by the generous funding of the UK Department for International Development, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Agriculture and Rural Development Sector of the European Union through DfID accountable grant agreement No: 202619-101, the UK Department for International Development through FSD Trust Grant SWD/Weather/43/2009, the United States Agency for International Development grant No: EDH-A-00-06-0003-00, the World Bank’s Trust Fund for Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Grant No: 7156906, the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Research Programs on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and Dryland Systems, and the Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA) of the CGIAR.…”
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Nominal Rate of Assistance (NRA): Data Processing and Treatment by Laborde Debucquet, David, Mamun, Abdullah

“…International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) maintains a harmonized database on nominal rate of protection (NRP) for the AgIncentives Consortium (www.ag-incentives.org) constituted by OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development), FAO, IFPRI, the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), and the World Bank. The database provides measures of the extent of market price distortion of agricultural products caused by border measures, such as tariffs, quotas, trade bans, export taxes, etc. …”
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Ethiopia’s agrifood system structure and drivers of transformation by Diao, Xinshen, Pauw, Karl, Thurlow, James, Ellis, Mia

“…Ethiopia’s GDP growth is now projected to recover to 5.3 percent in 2023 and 6.1 percent in 2024 (World Bank 2023), remaining well below the growth rates achieved in the pre-pandemic era. …”
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Labor Management Procedures (LMP)-AICCRA Additional Financing (P181150) by International Center for Tropical Agriculture

“…The purpose of the LMP is to facilitate the identification of different types of workers that are likely to be involved in the project and set out the ways in which those workers will be managed in accordance with the requirements of national laws and the objectives of the World Bank Environmental and Social Standard 2: Labor and Working Conditions (ESS-2) and Standard 4: Community Health and Safety (ESS-4) of the Environmental and Social Framework (ESF).…”
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Biotechnology in African Agricultural Research: Opportunities for Donor Organizations by Komen, John, Mignouna, J., Webber, H.

“…Agricultural research in Africa is generally very dependent on financial support from donor agencies and international lending organizations such as the World Bank. In May 1998 the Rockefeller Foundation requested ISNAR to analyze the needs and opportunities for greater investment in biotechnology research concerning African crops. …”
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Kenya's agrifood system: Overview and drivers of transformation by Diao, Xinshen, Pauw, Karl, Smart, Jenny, Thurlow, James

“…This exceeded population growth and helped raise household incomes, leading to a decline in poverty rates and, more importantly, in the number of poor people, for the first time in at least three decades (World Bank 2022). Agriculture played an important role in this. …”
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One of the world’s worst economic collapses, now compounded by the Ukraine crisis: What’s next for Lebanon? by Breisinger, Clemens, Khouri, Nadim, Glauber, Joseph W., Laborde Debucquet, David

“…But in the region, Lebanon — already in the midst of one of the world’s worst economic collapses since the 1850s — is uniquely vulnerable to food security impacts from the Russia-Ukraine conflict. A recent World Bank report calls Lebanon’s current crisis “The Great Denial” — referring to an ongoing breakdown of government services, civil society, and the economy.…”
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Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA): Environment and Social Management Plan (ESMP) to guide the Establishment of Solar-Powered Storage Facilities in... by Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT

“…The purpose of this ESMP is to consider and develop proper measures to decrease the possibility of environmental degradation during all phases of the project, and to provide clearly defined action plans and emergency response procedures to account for human and environmental health and safety in accordance with the requirements of Ghanaian laws and the objectives of the World Bank Environmental and Social Standards (ESS) : ESS-1: Assessment and Management of Environmental and Social Risks and Impacts ESS-2: Labor and Working Conditions ESS-3: Resource Efficiency and Pollution Prevention and Management ESS-4: Community Health and Safety ESS-6: Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Management of Living Natural Resources. …”
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Transforming the agrifood processing sector in Africa: The role of industrial clusters by Tabiri, Kwasi Gyabaa, Sakyi, Daniel

“…Agriculture accounted for approximately 53 percent of total employment in Africa south of the Sahara in 2019 while agricultural value added as a percentage of GDP stood at 17.2 percent in 2021 (World Bank 2022). The agrifood processing sector, which forms part of the wider agro-industrial sector,2 is also a key component in the manufacturing sector in many African economies (UNIDO 2012). …”
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Remote sensing and machine learning for food crop production data in Africa post-COVID-19 by Ly, Racine, Dia, Khadim, Diallo, Mariam A.

“…COVID-19 is upending livelihoods, damaging business and government balance sheets, and threatening to reverse development gains and growth prospects for years to come in Africa south of the Sahara (IFC 2020). The World Bank forecasts that Africa south of the Sahara will go into recession in 2020 and that COVID-19 will cost the region between $37 billion and $79 billion in output losses in 2020 alone. …”
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Credit for agricultural development by Khandker, Shahidur R.

“…All these activities induced by financial inclusion lead to higher productivity, raising income, consumption, nutrition, and education, and thus achieving multiple Sustainable Development Goals (World Bank 2018).…”
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Statistics on Public Expenditures for Economic Development (SPEED) by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The data were compiled from multiple sources, including the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and national governments, and conducted extensive data checks and adjustments to ensure consistent spending measurements over time that are free of exchange-rate fluctuations and currency denomination changes. …”
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Where are nutritious diets most expensive? Evidence from 195 foods in 164 countries by Alemu, Robel, Block, Steven A., Headey, Derek D., Bai, Yan, Masters, William A.

“…We use prices for 195 standardized food and beverage items across 164 countries in 2011 collected by the World Bank's International Comparison Project (ICP), matched with data on these items' composition in terms of 21 essential nutrients and each nutrient's lower and upper limits for a healthy adult woman. …”
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Growth and poverty reduction in Pakistan by Saeed, Wajiha, Davies, Stephen

“…However, as noted by the World Bank and the 2015-16 Economic Survey from the Ministry of Finance, much of the population remains in poverty or could fall into poverty if economic conditions worsened. …”
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