On the back of a season of good rainfall, Zimbabwe is expecting a bumper harvest, signaling a recovery of the agricultural sector in 2017 after a knock from the previous year’s El Nino-induced drought....
Date: June 13, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
WASHINGTON, March 22, 2017—The World Bank approved today an additional credit of $75 million to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for the Agriculture Rehabilitation and Recovery Support Project. The...
Date: March 22, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
INYI, March 14, 2017 – In many parts of Africa, a series of laudatory appellations called praise songs are widely used to capture the essence of the person or object being praised. In the Inyi...
Date: March 14, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
YAOUNDÉ, March 6, 2017− The heavy rains are drawing near. For the residents of Pouss, a small village located along the embankment separating the village from the Logone River, rain is synonymous with...
Date: March 6, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
LILONGWE, January 31, 2017 - Agriculture anchors Malawi’s economy, directly accounting for about one third of gross domestic product. Agriculture significantly contributes to employment, economic growth,...
Date: January 31, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
More than nearly any country in the world, Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to the steadily growing effects of climate change. The South, Southwest, and Southeast coastal regions are increasingly susceptible...
Date: October 11, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Agriculture has always been a notoriously difficult enterprise in the northwest districts of Bangladesh, which are prone to flash flooding and drought, and in southern regions damaged by saline from tidal...
Date: October 6, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
It is harvesting time in the fertile Ayeyarwady river basin, which means that the majority of able-bodied men and women in this village are busy in the paddy fields. They have to act fast to harvest the...
Date: August 11, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
WASHINGTON, May 20, 2016—Farmers of the Northern Savannah Zone of Ghana are to benefit from a scale-up of Sustainable Land and Water Management (SLWM) interventions in selected watersheds and forest fringe...
Date: May 20, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
KABUL CITY – Wahidullah Yousofi, head of the Agro-meteorological Department at the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation, and Livestock (MAIL), is busy reviewing and saving information that he has obtained...
Date: April 12, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
BAMYAN CITY, Bamyan Province –The noise of the tractor breaks the morning silence in Mullah Ghulam village as farmers harvest wheat at the research farm. There is a sense of satisfaction among the farmers...
Date: March 2, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
KARIZ MIR VILLAGE, Kabul Province – Snow blankets the surrounding hills and wintry winds blow. But despite the wind and cold, trees planted at the bottom of these hills stand unswayed and unaffected. ...
Date: May 6, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
ANTANANARIVO, February 9, 2015 – Tropical Storm Chedza pummeled Madagascar on January 16 and 17, 2015, leaving 75 people dead and 20,000 people displaced, according to the United Nations Office for the...
Date: February 9, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
KAOLACK, October 20, 2014 - Dust tornados danced across stunted fields of maize, peanuts, and millet on the outskirts of Kaolack and Kaffrine, approximately 200 kilometers away from Senegal’s capital city...
Date: October 20, 2014
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
On a hot June day, Gerónimo Carrasco makes one of the most difficult decisions of his life. He thought to himself, “the rains won’t come,” so he sold his two cows. “I don’t have water or food to give them....
Date: September 10, 2014
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
BEIJING, September 5, 2014 – Recently the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved a grant of US$5.1 million from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to the People’s Republic of China in support...
Date: September 5, 2014
Type: Press Release
Language: English
More than $62 million planned for jobs, roads and bridges TANAUAN (LEYTE), JULY 14, 2014 – World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim today reaffirmed the institution’s support for the Philippines’ reconstruction...
Date: July 14, 2014
Type: Press Release
Language: English
ISLAMABAD - July 08, 2014 - The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved on Monday the Sindh Agricultural Growth Project in the amount of US$ 76.4 million. The project aims to improve the productivity...
Date: July 8, 2014
Type: Press Release
Language: English
More powerful than Hurricane Katrina that hit the United States in 2005, Typhoon Yolanda is one of the costliest and deadliest storms in the Philippines to hit the country in recent years, displacing over...
Date: November 27, 2013
Type: Opinion
Language: English
New and old ways of coffee farming meet as cousins Carlos Alberto and Luís Carlos “Japao” Bassetto face the camera. The screen in their hands was used many years ago to clean the coffee cherries. ...
Date: September 25, 2013
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
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