• Training and integrating local people into the workforce
    This note provides guidance on how to assist people from surrounding areas in gaining formal employment at the investment. Formal employment is a major expected benefit of agricultural investments. Yet...
    Type: Brief Report#: 124292 Date: March 1, 2018
  • Outgrower schemes
    This note provides guidance on the design and implementation of outgrower schemes to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes for investors and smallholders. Outgrower schemes have gained prominence as a business...
    Type: Brief Report#: 124279 Date: March 1, 2018
  • Technology transfer
    This note provides guidance to governments and investors on how best to support the development and transfer of technologies to local smallholders and communities. New technology can help boost production...
    Type: Brief Report#: 124298 Date: March 1, 2018
  • Labor market observatories – critical success factors
    Type: Brief Report#: 124553 Date: March 1, 2018
  • Aquaculture
    Global fisheries production has risen rapidly over the past 60 years at over two and a half times the rate of world population growth, and aquaculture today is among the fastest-growing food sectors. The...
    Type: Brief Report#: 124341 Date: March 1, 2018 Author: Cassou, Emilie
  • Bringing rural development to bear on human nutrition
    Intuitively, agricultural and rural development projects may seem to bear straightforward impacts on human nutrition. Yet nutrition outcomes are not traditionally within the purview of those who plan and...
    Type: Brief Report#: 127756 Date: March 1, 2018
  • Respecting land rights and averting land disputes
    This note provides guidance on how to ensure that agricultural investments respect existing land rights, both formal and informal, and thereby avert land disputes. Failure to respect land rights - in particular...
    Type: Brief Report#: 124286 Date: March 1, 2018
  • Fertilizer
    Over the past 50–60 years, unbridled growth in global fertilizer use to boost and maintain crop yields has polluted natural and agricultural systems, leading to a range of harmful outcomes. The abundant...
    Type: Brief Report#: 124343 Date: March 1, 2018 Author: Cassou, Emilie
  • West Bank and Gaza - Securing energy for growth and development
    Power demand in West Bank is fast outpacing supply and Gaza is already experiencing severe shortage with electricity supply of less than 6 hours per day, affecting homes, hospitals, schools, and businesses....
    Type: Brief Report#: 125275 Date: March 1, 2018
  • Field Burning
    The practice of burning unwanted vegetation to prepare land for sowing crops or other farming activities is a worldwide and long-standing practice. Its tenacity, despite its harmful consequences for air...
    Type: Brief Report#: 124342 Date: March 1, 2018 Author: Cassou, Emilie
  • Creating an enabling environment
    This note provides guidance on how to create an investment climate that is conducive to attracting high-quality, responsible investment in agriculture. The investment climate needs to enable investors...
    Type: Brief Report#: 124280 Date: March 1, 2018
  • Participation of youth
    This note provides examples that investors, civil society, and governments can follow to engage youth in participating in agriculture. Young people can be the driving force for the inclusive rural transformation...
    Type: Brief Report#: 124296 Date: March 1, 2018
  • Risk and vulnerability in the Pacific
    Vulnerability significantly compounds hardship in the Pacific. More than twenty percent of people in most Pacific Island Countries (PIC) live in hardship, meaning they are unable to meet their basic food...
    Type: Brief Report#: 123790 Date: March 1, 2018 Author: Sharma, Manohar
  • How Well Do We Measure Non-Cognitive Skills in Developing Countries? Initial Lessons from STEP Skills Measurement Program
    Standard skills indicators leave an information gap on workforce skill characteristics, job skill requirements, and quality of worker-job matches that prevents policymakers from making informed and timely...
    Type: Brief Report#: 123792 Date: March 1, 2018 Author: Arias Diaz, Omar S. ; Laajaj, Rachid ; Macours, Karen ; Rubio-Codina, Marta ; Vakis, Renos
  • Choosing appropriate business models
    This note provides guidance on considerations in the selection of an appropriate business model through which to conduct an agricultural investment. Agricultural investments have a wide range of impacts,...
    Type: Brief Report#: 124278 Date: March 1, 2018
  • Public transparency
    This note provides guidance on the type of information about agricultural investments that investors and governments can make publicly available. Transparency about certain aspects of investments can improve...
    Type: Brief Report#: 124285 Date: March 1, 2018
  • The Fintech Revolution: A Threat to Global Banking?
    The period since the global financial crisis of 2008 has been characterized by the emergence of a broad set of tech-driven financial companies ("fintech" companies), acting in parallel with traditional...
    Type: Brief Report#: 125038 Date: March 1, 2018 Author: Cortina Lorente, Juan Jose ; Schmukler, Sergio L.
  • Screening prospective investors
    This note provides guidance to governments on how to screen and select prospective investment projects to ensure they maximize the social, economic, and environmental benefits while minimizing the risks....
    Type: Brief Report#: 124281 Date: March 1, 2018
  • Food security and nutrition
    This note provides guidance on how to ensure tan agricultural investment makes a positive contribution to local and national food security and nutrition. Investments can play a critical role by introducing...
    Type: Brief Report#: 124297 Date: March 1, 2018
  • Empowering women
    This note addresses practices for reducing gender inequalities and for empowering women to make a positive contribution to development through agricultural investments. Women make a crucial contribution...
    Type: Brief Report#: 124295 Date: March 1, 2018
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