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Digital technologies have significant potential to improve efficiency, equity, and environmental sustainability in the food system. A range of digital technologies are already leading to: better informed and engaged consumers and producers, smarter farms, and improved public services. Adoption...
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To permanently end poverty and hunger by 2030, the world needs a food system that can feed every person, every day … better steward the world's natural resources. Urgently, we need a food system that is more resilient and that shifts from …
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The agriculture sector in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remains the backbone of national economies, sustaining rural and urban livelihoods alike, and providing food and income for the majority of households. Recent agriculture growth in Sub-Saharan Africa has been solid and has supported improvements...
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Sierra Leone's economy experienced overlapping setbacks during 2022, as external spillovers from the Russian invasion of Ukraine aggravated domestic macroeconomic vulnerabilities. This led to high levels of inflation, a substantially weaker currency, greater imbalances in public finances, and...
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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 is a product of the World Bank's monitoring efforts in Myanmar and provides an in-depth look at the country …
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from biological materials andconvert them into products such as food, animal feedand bioenergy. In a post-fossil-fuel world …
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Under nutrition levels in Lao PDR remain among the highest in the world, despite both rapid economic growth and a …
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Real GDP growth rebounded strongly to 6.1 percent in FY17/18, from 3.9 percent the previous year. The rebound was largely driven by a pick-up in investments and exports, and on the back of strengthened credit to the private sector and good weather. Consequently, services, particularly...
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The World Bank Group has developed a new diagnostic approach called Maximizing Finance for Development (MFD). This … study pilots the use of the World Bank's MFD approach to identify areas along value chains (VCs) where the private sector is …
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