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Agricultural Education, Science and Modern Technology's Role in Solving the Problems of Global Food Resources in the 21st Century

McCalla, Alex F. - 1998

The growth of agriculture output over the past 200 years has been phenomenal. When Malthus wrote in 1798, he perceived … the 19th century, increased output came from expanded land area in production. Science-based agriculture is really a post …

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Future of Food : Harnessing Digital Technologies to Improve Food System Outcomes

World Bank Group - 2019

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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The Case for Investment in Nutrition in Senegal : Analysis and Perspective - 15 Years of Experience in the Development of Nutrition Policy in Senegal

Ruel-Bergeron, Julie - 2018

Senegal is among the few countries in Sub-Saharan Africa that have succeeded in improving their population's nutritional status in recent decades. The prevalence of key nutrition indicators, such as the proportion of children stunted, wasted, and underweight, is lower than that in most other...

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Evolution of Nutrition Policy in Senegal : Analysis and Perspective - 15 Years of Experience in the Development of Nutrition Policy in Senegal

Spray, Andrea L. - 2018

Nutrition has been ingrained in key social and economic development policies in Senegal since the birth of the Republic. The evolution of nutrition policy, and its impact on the state of nutrition in Senegal, is the result of a constant interplay between social, environmental, and economic...

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A Decade of World Bank Support to Senegal's Nutrition Program : Analysis and Perspective - 15 Years of Experience in the Development of Nutrition Policy in Senegal

Vaillancourt, Denise - 2016

At the start of the new millennium, malnutrition in Senegal was of great concern. Among children under five years of age almost one-third (30 percent) were stunted (low height for age), 10 percent were wasted (low weight for height), and 20 percent were underweight (weight for age), each of...

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Future of Food : Maximizing Finance for Development in Agricultural Value Chains

Townsend, Robert - 2018

Current levels of investment in agricultural value chains are insufficient to achieve key development goals including ending poverty and hunger, boosting shared prosperity through more and better jobs, and better stewarding the world's natural resources by 2030. Crowding-in private investment to...

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From Agriculture to Nutrition : Pathways, Synergies and Outcomes

World Bank - 2007

agriculture and nutrition outcomes. The report identifies a number of developments in agriculture and nutrition that have … transformed the context in which nutrition is affected by agriculture. The relationship between agriculture and human nutrition is … food supply and food demand. Expanding agriculture's purview and capacity to embrace those contributing factors and …

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The Role of Agriculture in a Modernizing Society : Food, Farms and Fields in China 2030

Christiaensen, Luc - 2012

. Agriculture has been an important contributor to these developments. Since 1978, China has almost doubled its cereal production … themselves for China's agriculture, and old ones are resurfacing. High (land saving) Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth and …, fragmented production structures, and distorted land and labor markets have defined Chinese agriculture over the past three …

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Blockchain and Emerging Digital Technologies for Enhancing Post-2020 Climate Markets

World Bank Group - 2018

Since its adoption in December 2015 by the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21), within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), 175 countries to date have ratified the Paris Agreement. These countries have made commitments Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), in...

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Skills and Europe's Labor Market : How Technological Change and Other Drivers of Skill Demand and Supply are Shaping Europe's Labor Market

Hoftijzer, Margo - 2018

This report complements the recent World Bank publication, Growing United: Upgrading Europe's Convergence Machine (Bodewig, C., Ridao-Cano, C., 2018). The Growing United report highlights that, while the European Union is still the "convergence machine" that fosters an unparalleled depth and...

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