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Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) for the Installation of Soil Archive Equipment and Gas Chromatograph in Ibadan, Nigeria by International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

“…It includes detailed procedures for risk mitigation, emergency response, and stakeholder engagement in line with Nigerian legal requirements and the World Bank Environmental and Social Standards (ESS), specifically: 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 This ESMP covers the scope of the project’s additional financing phase and addresses both anticipated adverse impacts and positive contributions, including capacity building, institutional strengthening, and support for regional soil health initiatives. …”
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Cash transfers and inflation: An overview of the evidence by Allen IV, James, Gentilini, Ugo

“…Cash transfer programs are a leading form of social assistance, reaching up to 21 percent of the population in at least 68 low- and middle-income countries (World Bank 2025). Between 1980 and 2023, a total of 1.4 million papers were produced on the matter (Gentilini 2024) and more have been published since. …”
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Training of trainers on the establishment of Community-Based Breeding Programme for small ruminants in Uganda: Strengthening competence in improved health and feeding, reproductive... by Recha, John W.M., Haile, Aynalem, Getachew, Tesfaye, Barungi. Julian, Ilakut, Ben, Okonya, Joshua, Gitau, Angela, Radeny, Angela

“…The AICCRA project is funded by the World Bank and aims to strengthen the technical, institutional, and human capacity needed to enhance transfer of climate-relevant information, decision-making tools, and technologies in support of scaling efforts in IDA-eligible countries in Africa. …”
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Strengthening Soil Health Systems in West Africa: Development of Appropriate Fertilizer Nutrient Requirements for Specific Crop and Soil Combinations within Prioritized Target Area... by Kadja, Lionel Axel, Vanlauwe, Bernard, Mkuhlani, Siyabusa, Shehu, Bello, Sinha, Surajit, Sehou, Romaric;, Dalaa, Mustapha Alasan, Ampadu Boakye, Theresa

“…In response IITA and other technical partners, with funding from the World Bank are generating validated crop- and soil-specific nutrient combinations in support of the development of locally relevant Integrated Soil fertility Management (ISFM) recommendations through IPI 1.4. …”
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Malawi’s agrifood system: Transformation and environmental impacts by Diao, Xinshen, De Weerdt, Joachim, Fang, Peixun, Jones, Eleanor, Nagoli, Joseph, Pauw, Karl, Thurlow, James

“…Economic growth rates have dropped from an average of 4.1 percent in 2011–2019 to 2.2 percent since 2020 (World Bank 2025), with an average growth rate of 3.8 percent per year during 2009–2022.…”
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D4N2025 Presentation Showcase – Thematic Session 4A: Nourishing spaces: Homes, schools and markets by Hewavidana, Budni Hasanga, Lamsal, Krishna, Nusry, Mohamed, Dittakavi, Sandhya NVS, Chakrabarti, Suman, Atanasova, Petya

“…D4N2025 funders include ANH Academy, CGIAR Better Diets and Nutrition, CGIAR Scaling for Impact, Heifer International, IFPRI, UN World Food Programme, and the World Bank. Thematic Session 4a: Nourishing Spaces: Homes, Schools & Markets Presentation 1: Matching Intervention Packages to Local Food Environment Risk Profiles in Sri Lanka Based on a Theory-Driven Constrained Latent Class Analysis by Budni Hasanga Hewavidana. …”
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D4N2025 Presentation Showcase – Thematic Session 5A: Nutrition-sensitive agriculture: Pathways to more nutritious food systems by Islam, Md. Saiful, Bakhtiar, M. Mehrab, Kamal, Mustafa, Suri, Shoba, Saran, Rohini, Sharma, Priyanka, de Brauw, Alan, Schreinemachers, Pepijn

“…D4N2025 funders include ANH Academy, CGIAR Better Diets and Nutrition, CGIAR Scaling for Impact, Heifer International, IFPRI, UN World Food Programme, and the World Bank. Presentation 1: Crop Diversification with Nutrition Training Boosts Food Security, Income, Sustainability, and Agrifood Transformation in Rural Bangladesh by Md. …”
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D4N2025 Presentation Showcase – Thematic Session 5B: Nourishing generations: Maternal & child nutrition by Shah, Neeta, Wadhwa, Rajni, Ireen, Santhia, Choudhary, Santosh Kumar, Kumbhakar, Satyanarayan, Das, Pinaki, Abul Basar, Sk. Md., Mukherjee, Sreeparna Ghosh, Bhattacharya, Ipsita

“…D4N2025 funders include ANH Academy, CGIAR Better Diets and Nutrition, CGIAR Scaling for Impact, Heifer International, IFPRI, UN World Food Programme, and the World Bank. Presentation 1: Reducing Nutritional Anaemia via Health Education, Supplements, Iron-Rich Diet for Women (19–45 years) in Madhya Pradesh, India by Neeta Shah. …”
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D4N2025 Presentation Showcase – Thematic Session 2A: Data systems at scale: Strengthening infrastructure, quality, & use by Purushotham, Anjali, Sivaramakrishnan, Divya, Hossain, Rakib, Manohar, Swetha, Azimi, Said M Yaqoob, Phanwar, La-in Shap

“…D4N2025 funders include ANH Academy, CGIAR Better Diets and Nutrition, CGIAR Scaling for Impact, Heifer International, IFPRI, UN World Food Programme, and the World Bank. Presentation 1: Potential of a High-Frequency Price Monitoring Tool to Track the Cost of Healthy Diets Over Time: A Case Study from Rural Bihar, India by Anjali Purushotham. …”
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Life after a cluster intervention: Insights from shrimp farming in Bangladesh by Narayanan, Sudha, Sakil, Abdul Zabbar, Kabir, Razin, Redoy, Md., Belton, Ben

“…In 2022, as part of a World Bank funded project, the Department of Fisheries organized smallholder shrimp farmers with contiguous ponds into clusters in Khulna, Satkhira and Bagerhat districts in southwest Bangladesh. …”
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Water financing: scaling up finance to the Water, Energy, Food and Environment (WEFE) Nexus by Ravindranath, Darshini, Steele, P.

“…Financing for climate, nature, and development has featured prominently in recent global forums, including Climate COP29, Nature COP16, Desertification COP16, the World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings, and the International Development Association (IDA) replenishment. …”
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Oil, macroeconomics, and forests: assessing the linkages by Wunder, Sven, Sunderlin, William D.

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Draught animal power for land-use intensification in the Ethiopian highlands by Astatke, A., Mohamed-Saleem, M.A.

“…The human population of Ethiopia is 57 million and is growing at the rate of 3.4 percent annually (World Bank, 1993). During the last two decades, the country was hit by two famines. …”
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Participatory development projects in the Andes - looking for empowerment with Q-Methodology by Zuger Caceres, Regula

“…Q-Methodology is used in order to achieve better insight into the subjective nature of this famous factor “empowerment”, which is considered important even by the World Bank now. (Narayan D., 2002) The subjective reality of a person is a functional reality, it is often much more functional than the external “objective” reality, because it is what people perceive and what makes up their life. …”
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Winners and losers of IWRM [Integrated Water Resources Management] in Tanzania by van Koppen, Barbara, Tarimo, A.K.P.R., Eeden, A. van, Manzungu, Emmanuel, Sumuni, P.M.

“…After the 1990s, the World Bank and other donors promoted IWRM with a strong focus on hydroelectric power development, River Basin Water Boards, transformation of the water right system into a taxation tool, and assessment of environmental flows. …”
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Beyond “More Crop per Drop”: evolving thinking on agricultural water productivity by Giordano, Meredith A., Turral, Hugh, Scheierling, S.M., Treguer, D.O., McCornick, Peter G.

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The removal of trade sanctions’ impact on South African wine export : a gravity model that estimates what happened with South Africa’s wine export when apartheid ended. by Linderson, Julia

“…The data for the gravity model and for the complementary analyses are collected from the FAO State and the World Bank. The estimated results show that wine exports increased by 244 percent after the embargo was removed. …”

CGIAR International Centers Week, Washington, DC, October 28 - November 1, 1996: Summary of Proceedings and Decisions by CGIAR Secretariat

“…It was addressed by: World Bank President James Wolfensohn, Crawford Lecturer Maurice Strong, several past CGIAR chairs, a former chair of TAC, Gurdev Khush of IRRI, winner of the 1996 World Food Prize, and the CGIAR Chairman. …”
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Del crecimiento verde a la agricultura sostenible en Colombia by Melo León, Sioux Fanny

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Pakistan: getting more from water by Young, W.J., Anwar, Arif A., Bhatti, Muhammad Tousif, Borgomeo, Edoardo, Davies, Stephen, Garthwaite, W.R., Gilmont, M., Leb, C., Lytton, L., Makin, Ian, Saeed, B.

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