Resultados de búsqueda - "World Bank"

Value chain interventions for improving women's economic empowerment: A mixed‐methods systematic review and meta‐analysis: A systematic review por Malhotra, Suchi Kapoor, Mantri, Swati, Gupta, Neha, Bhandari, Ratika, Armah, Ralph Nii, Alhassan, Hamdiyah, Young, Sarah, White, Howard, Puskur, Ranjitha, Waddington, Hugh Sharma, Masset, Edoardo

“…We also searched relevant websites such as Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers (CGIAR); the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); AgriProFocus; the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Donor Committee for Enterprise Development; the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO); the International Labour Organisation (ILO); the Netherlands Development Organisation; USAID; the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation; the International Food Policy Research Institute; World Agroforestry; the International Livestock Research Institute; the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office; the British Library for Development Studies (BLDS); AGRIS; the IMMANA grant database; the 3ie impact evaluation database; Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA); The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL); the World Bank IEG evaluations; the USAID Development Data Library; Experience Clearinghouse; the proceedings of the Agriculture, Nutrition and Health Academy conference; the proceedings of the Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) Conference; the proceedings of the North East Universities Development Consortium (NEUDC) Conference; and the World Bank Economic Review. …”
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Report on AICCRA Ethiopia Inception Workshop por Auma, Joseph

“…The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), in partnership with other CGIAR centers and with support from the World Bank, has developed an initiative to Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA). …”
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Training need assessment report on livestock feed and forage production and utilization por Abdulkadir, Birhan, Gebreyes, Million, Mekonnen, Kindu

“…The project is supported by a grant from the International Development Association (IDA) of the World Bank and will enhance research and capacity-building activities by CGIAR and its partners. …”
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Are climate- and peace and security-related policies coherent? A policy coherence analysis for climate security por Schapendonk, Frans, Madurga Lopez, Ignacio M., Savelli, Adam, Sarzana, Carolina

“…These forms of exposure can be compounded by persistent or periodically high levels of fragility – defined by the World Bank (2011) as periods when states or institutions lack the capacity, accountability, or legitimacy to mediate relations between citizen groups and between citizens and the state – which can in turn undermine the extent to which societies as a whole and certain groups within them possess the adaptive capacity to manage, absorb or mitigate climate risks. …”
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East and Southern Africa Regional Training On the Improved NextGen Seasonal Forecasting Approach (PyCPT 2) por Grossi, Amanda, Robertson, Andrew, Muñoz, Angel, Singh, Bohar, Dinku, Tufa, Demissie, Teferi Dejene, Solomon, Dawit

“…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 10 national meteorological services from the ESA region, as well as its regional climate center— IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC)—to improve seasonal forecasting capacities using the “NextGen” approach and its concomitant PyCPT version 2 interface (PyCPT2). …”
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Internship Report: Creating Opportunities for Increasing Youth Employment in the Agriculture Sector por Beauchesne, Jean-Frederic, Makungwe, Mirriam

“…Following the successes of EDGE’s pilot intervention, ACDI/VOCA and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) executed a Partnership Agreement to implement a second, expanded phase of this internship program under the World Bank’s Research Project, Accelerating the Impact of the CGIAR’s Research in Africa (AICCRA)-Zambia. …”
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Multilateral development banks investment behaviour in water and sanitation: findings and lessons from 60 years of investment projects in Africa and Asia por Heidler, A., Nesi, Muhil, Nikiema, J., Luthi, C.

“…To address this gap, we assess water and sanitation financing by the three MDBs most relevant to Africa and Asia between 1960 and 2020: the World Bank, the African Development Bank, and the Asian Development Bank. …”
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Examining linkages among multiple sustainable development outcomes: Does the productive safety net program increase on‑farm agrobiodiversity? por Kozicka, Marta, Gotor, Elisabetta, Pagnani, Tiziana, Occelli, Martina, Caracciolo, Francesco

“…We base our empirical analysis on the World Bank’s Ethiopian Socioeconomic Survey, a panel dataset encompassing nearly 3000 respondents and a Tobit model, based on Difference-in- Difference and the Propensity-Score Matching methods. …”
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Uganda’s agrifood system structure and drivers of transformation por Diao, Xinshen, Ellis, Mia, Pauw, Karl, Thurlow, James

“…Uganda’s GDP growth is projected to reach 5.5 percent in 2023 and 6.1 percent in 2024 (World Bank 2023), suggesting that the economy is resuming its pre-pandemic growth trajectory. …”
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Open DataStack to power Government of Uttar Pradesh’s AgriStack por Mehrotra, N.

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Climate Risk Management in Agriculture (CRMA): A Short and Customized Training por Belay, Berhanu, Ambaw, Gebermedihin, Demissie, Teferi Dejene, Solomon, Dawit

“…Additionally, the country's diverse topography, spanning from highlands to lowlands, exacerbates its susceptibility as different regions experience varying climate patterns and associated risks (World Bank, 2021). Ethiopia faces several climate risks, including droughts, water scarcity, flooding, erosion, desertification, and an increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. …”
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Kenyan diets: Quality, affordability, and preferences por Ecker, Olivier, Comstock, Andrew R., Pauw, Karl

“…In Kenya in 2020, an estimated 19 percent of children under five years of age were stunted (UNICEF, WHO, and World Bank 2021); in 2014, 33 percent of women aged 15–49 years were overweight or obese (KNBS et al. 2015), while recent regional trends in adults’ body mass index suggest a rapid increase in the prevalence of overweight and obesity (Abarca-Gomez et al. 2017). …”
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The impact of the Ukraine crisis on the global vegetable oil market por Glauber, Joseph W., Laborde Debucquet, David, Mamun, Abdullah

“…The war in Ukraine has pushed prices of agricultural products to historically high levels, and concerns about global food security occupy headlines and world leaders’ minds, as demonstrated by recent International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings. So far, much of the attention has focused on grains, particularly wheat — because of its importance in diets, and the predicament of countries where wheat accounts for a large share of calories consumed, is largely imported, and is dominated by supplies from the Black Sea. …”
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How might gender norms mediate the benefits of higher coffee production in Uganda? por Doan, Miki, Hoffmann, Vivian

“…In many settings, men have traditionally taken the lead role in production of cash crops grown for sale, while women have managed crops grown purely or primarily for subsistence (World Bank, FAO and IFAD, 2009). In this note, we describe results from the baseline survey of an impact evaluation of the Uganda Coffee Agronomy Training (UCAT) program, which aims to train 60,000 smallholder coffee growers over four years. …”
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COVID-19: Assessing impacts and policy responses for food and nutrition security por Swinnen, Johan, McDermott, John

“…The huge impact expected on the world’s economy and on global food security has been described in dramatic terms. The World Bank forecasts that the global economy will shrink by more than 5%, which would be the deepest recession since the Second World War. …”
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Model-based planning for post-conflict reconstruction: The case of Yemen por Breisinger, Clemens, Engelke, Wilfried, Mukashov, Askar, Wiebelt, Manfred

“…We first calibrate the model to pre-conflict data (2014) and validate it by replicating the most recent available dynamic needs assessments for Yemen that were elaborated by the World Bank. We then report model scenario results for unobserved development indicators, such as estimates for sector-level growth, employment, and poverty. …”
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A 2006 Social Accounting Matrix for Rwanda por Diao, Xinshen

“…This SAM has been modified from the o riginal SAM, which was constructed by Arnault Emini (2007) under a joint project between the Ministry or Economy and Finance (MINECOFIN) in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture (MINAGRI) and the World Bank. In this SAM, the three main components of Rwandan economy: (i) agriculture, (ii) industry, and (iii) services are disaggregated into 53 sectors. …”
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From famine to food security: Lessons for building resilient food systems por Babu, Suresh Chandra, Dorosh, Paul A.

“…For example, 6.7 million people were affected by Malawi’s largest food crisis in decades in 2016–2017, and the country remains vulnerable to weather extremes that could create food emergencies (World Bank 2017). In Kenya, food security has deteriorated since the end of 2016 and half of its 47 counties face food shortages (Chatterjee and Mengistu 2017). …”
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Institutional limits to land governance reform: Federal-state dynamics in Nigeria por Resnick, Danielle, Okumo, Austen

“…These include the African Union’s Land Policy Initiative (AULPI) and the World Bank’s Land Governance Assessment Framework (LGAF). …”
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Searching for synergies for low emission development, the case for dairy subsector in Kenya por Onyango, J., Vellema, S., Crane, Todd A., Atela, J.

“…The paper identified four key documents as strategic for reinforcing LEDD measures across other policy measures comprising the Kenya Green Economy Strategy and Implementation Plan (KGESIP), the Medium Term Three Big Four Agenda (B4A), the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals), and the World Bank Climate Smart Agriculture (WB CSA). The paper identifies that policy documents structured to support implementation at the local level tend to be more synergistic. …”
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