Motorcycles play a big part in carrying out animal health inspections in Mongolia to ensure that herds remain disease-free and to record and report disease outbreaks. In a country where a large number...
Date: May 31, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
LOMÉ, May 15, 2017-Although it is home to 13 percent of the global population, Africa provides just 4 percent of the world’s poultry products. The average African eats one egg every five or six weeks,...
Date: May 15, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
ADDIS ABABA, May 2, 2017 - Across the vast, flat plains of southeastern Ethiopia, you can see plumes of dust whirling around like mini tornados. Local people say they signal the onset of rain but,...
Date: May 2, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
TANGUIETA, February 23, 2017—“Poaching has no future if Antoine Loana’s entrepreneurial spirit spreads to all the villages adjacent to the biosphere reserves,” remarked a smiling World Bank expert at the...
Date: February 23, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
NILI DISTRICT, Daykundi Province – Shrubby trees, boxy mud-brick houses, and bare sheaths of rock dot the stark landscape on the two-hour rocky drive from Daykundi’s provincial capital, Nili, to Chahr...
Date: January 4, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
BAMAKO, December 9, 2016 ─ Despite the dominant role that crop and livestock farming plays in Mali’s economy, the country has some of the highest rates of acute malnutrition and rural poverty in Africa....
Date: December 9, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
WASHINGTON, October 27, 2016– The World Bank Board of Executive Director approved today $100 million to help Cameroon improve the productivity and competitiveness of targeted livestock production systems...
Date: October 27, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
A barrage of squawks greets Mercy Wairimu every time she steps into the two story chicken coop that stands in her backyard. The poultry farmer from Nakuru County in Kenya beams. The noise from her chickens,...
Date: October 24, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
ULAANBAATAR, October 21, 2016 – Commercializing the livestock and agriculture sector can help diversify the economy and play an even stronger role in reducing poverty and vulnerability of the rural population...
Date: October 21, 2016
Type: Press Release
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
LAIKIPIA, July 30, 2016– The Government of Kenya today launched Kenya’s component of the US$197m Regional Pastoral Livelihoods Resilience Project (RPLRP). Over 93,000 households whose livelihoods rely...
Date: July 30, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
KHARTOUM, May 16, 2016 — The World Bank Group, in partnership with Sudan’s Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, and the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, launched today the 2016 Enabling the...
Date: May 16, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
NAIROBI, March 12, 2016- The Government of Kenya today launched the Kenya National Agricultural Insurance Program, which is designed to address the challenges that agricultural producers face when there...
Date: March 12, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
In order to know the way forward, it helps to review the past. It was 25 years ago, as the global order changed with the sweeping transitions from plans to markets, that Mongolia joined the World Bank....
Date: February 16, 2016
Type: Opinion
Language: English
NIENA, January 14, 2016 — Adama Togola began selling cattle in 1985 as a simple trader. Fourteen years later, after having taken up cattle fattening, he is now a successful businessman that heads up the...
Date: January 14, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Apia, Samoa, November 4, 2015 – Two out of every three Samoans work in the agricultural sector, rearing livestock, growing crops, or performing a combination of both. Many livestock are traditionally...
Date: November 4, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Gideon Anaba has been up since dawn, checking on soon-to-be hatched guinea keets, feeding grown guinea fowl and tending to customers who have come to buy eggs and birds. Ever since he retired...
Date: October 12, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
BEHSOUD DISTRICT, Nangarhar Province – Zahidah, 40, has not let her paralyzed left hand stop her from getting her family’s livelihood in order and motivating her husband to start working following his...
Date: June 3, 2015
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
WASHINGTON, March 13, 2015— About 96,100 rural households in China’s Hebei Province will gain access to clean, easy-to-use biogas for cooking, with help from a $71.5 million loan approved by the World...
Date: March 13, 2015
Type: Press Release
Language: English
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