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1 online resource (908 pages) |
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Online access: World Bank World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
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| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Agricultural development projects -- Developing countries
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Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries
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Agricultural development projects
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Agriculture -- Economic aspects
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Developing countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780821383520 |
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0821383523 |
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9780821360859 |
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082136085X |
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