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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450325203321

Titolo

Agriculture investment sourcebook [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC, : World Bank, 2005

ISBN

1-280-09080-4

9786610090808

0-8213-8352-3

1-4175-7586-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (908 p.)

Disciplina

332.67/22

Soggetti

Agricultural development projects - Developing countries

Agriculture - Economic aspects - Developing countries

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Building Agricultural Policy and Institutional Capacity; Notes; 2 Investments in Agricultural Science and Technology; 3 Investments in Agricultural Extension and Information Systems; 4 Investments in Sustainable Agricultural Intensification; 5 Investment in Sustainable Natural Resource Management for Agriculture; 6 Investment in Agribusiness and Market Development; 7 Investments in Rural Finance for Agriculture; 8 Investments in Irrigation and Drainage

9 Investments in Land Administration, Policy and Markets10 Managing Agricultural Risk, Vulnerability, and Disaster; 11 Scaling up Agricultural Investments in the Bank's Changing Internal Environment; Appendix: Key Websites; Index; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Investing to promote agricultural growth and poverty reduction is a central pillar of the World Bank's current rural strategy, Reaching the Rural Poor (2003). One major thrust of the strategy outlines the priorities and the approaches that the public sector, private sector, and civil society can employ to enhance productivity and competitiveness of the agricultural sector in ways that reduce the rural poverty and sustain



the natural resource base. These actions involve a rich mixture of science, technology, people, communication, management, learning, research, capacity building, institutional