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The rural economy in Bangladesh has been a powerful source of economic growth and has substantially reduced poverty, especially since 2000, but the remarkable transformation and unprecedented dynamism in rural Bangladesh are an underexplored, underappreciated, and largely untold story. The...
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) in the context of the macro-trends and issues affecting Croatian agriculture today, the ongoing EU CAP reform process … agriculture and rural development in Croatia, as the country prepares its National Agriculture and Rural Development Strategy and … formulates its Strategic Plan for the European Union's (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for the next programming period …
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Transport connectivity is an essential part of the enabling environment for inclusive and sustained growth. In many developing countries, particularly in Africa, most people are still not connected to local, regional, or global markets. Such rural accessibility is crucial to reduce poverty and...
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This report applies the framework to diagnose the opportunities and constraints faced by the rural economy and households and to assess policy options to address these constraints. The approach builds on four steps. The first step consists in examining the socio-demographic profile and living...
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of European Union (EU) agricultural, food and fisheries products into Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). We adapt and … estimate the impact of imports from the EU on consumption and local production of agricultural and food products for which …
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decade. Consumers in high value markets in the EU and beyond are shifting their expenditures towards safe, healthy …, sustainable, and convenient products. Recent EU market projections further confirm ongoing shifts in consumer demand. Agri … resulted in losses generated by the agriculture, forestry and fisheries sector. Climate change impacts are expected to appear …
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comprised of four sector specific analyses: (i) health, (ii) education (iii) social protection, and (iv) agriculture. The …), except for health, and low spending efficiency scores the country experiences in these sectors. The Agriculture Sector Public … covers core issues related to the level and quality of public spending in agriculture, which will help to identify the …
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Despite the significant potential of soil to sequester organic carbon, there are challenges to implementing carbon sequestration projects. For example, changes in soil carbon can be relatively small in magnitude per unit area and slow to be fully achieved, while its measurement and monitoring...
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. Growth in agriculture has been sustained through the cash crops sector, which is relatively better than the food crop sector …
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contribution of the agriculture sector to the country's economic growth and diversification, employment creation, poverty reduction …, however, requires an integrated set of multi-sectoral policies. Synergistic public and private investments in agriculture …, water, and land can lead to increased production and productivity by transitioning from low returns from agriculture to high …
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