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...
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...
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: BriefReport#: 124343Date: March 1, 2018Author:
Cassou, Emilie
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....
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: BriefReport#: 124342Date: March 1, 2018Author:
Cassou, Emilie
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...
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...
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: BriefReport#: 123790Date: March 1, 2018Author:
Sharma, Manohar
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: BriefReport#: 123792Date: March 1, 2018Author:
Arias Diaz, Omar S. ;
Laajaj, Rachid ;
Macours, Karen ;
Rubio-Codina, Marta ;
Vakis, Renos
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,...
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...
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: BriefReport#: 125038Date: March 1, 2018Author:
Cortina Lorente, Juan Jose ;
Schmukler, Sergio L.
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....
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...
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...
Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H) has been suffering increased flooding and landslide events in recent years due to the impact of global climate change. In 2014 a 1 in 500 year flood event affected 60 towns...
This issue of Indonesia daily economic update for March 1, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) recorded 3.18 percent year-on-year inflation in February 2018;...
This issue of Indonesia daily economic update for February 28, 2018 contains economic highlights including : (i) President Jokowi has given the green light for the establishment of a state-owned oil and...
This issue of Indonesia daily economic update for February 27, 2018 contains economic highlights including : (i) state-owned energy company Pertamina has increased the prices of several non-subsidized...
The Jakarta Composite Index fell 0.6 percent over the week, in line with most markets in the region. The Rupiah depreciated against the US Dollar, Euro and Japanese Yen by 0.6 percent, 0.2 percent and...
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