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other regions in the world to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The region also faces challenges from other emerging … diseases, re-emerging diseases, and climate change. Since 2020, the Central Asian regional economies, as the rest of the world … security and achieving gains in development. The World Bank has been actively engaged in Central Asia for over two decades and …
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This report focuses on growing trade in food staples in the Southern and Eastern African region of Africa as one of the largest growth opportunities available to African farmers. This paper examines the impact of regional trade in food staples, both for maintaining farmer incentives in surplus...
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drivers of the so-called feminization of agriculture in Latin America. This feminization has relevance for everyone given … agriculture's role in regional food security, national shared prosperity, and household resilience to shocks. The objective of … this study is to investigate the feminization of agriculture as well as its implications for women's agency, household …
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products. Given the importance and sensitivity of the food and agriculture sector in the country, the report highlights a …
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Most recent African indigenous knowledge (IK) literature, especially in agriculture, emphasizes that Africans are …
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More than 90 percent of the population in the Sahel lives on agriculture. The fact that crop production has not kept up …
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This report evaluates the requirements for an assessment of climate change impacts on agriculture to guide policy … makers on investment priorities and phasing. Because agriculture is vital for national food security and is a strong … contributor to Brazil's GDP growth, there is growing concern that Brazilian agriculture is increasingly vulnerable to climate …
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Fostering more rapid rural development, particularly raising the productivity and competitiveness, and accelerating the growth of the agricultural and rural non-farm sectors, and critical elements to achieving faster overall economic growth, and hence, poverty reduction in Maharashtra. This...
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key drivers of gender gaps in agriculture productivity in Nigeria: women use fewer inputs and have limited participation … Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD). Specifically, the underlying analysis aims to (i) examine women …
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