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In Africa, agriculture is vital for employment and food security. Despite women contributing 40 percent of agricultural labor, they face barriers leading to significant gender gaps...

Highlights: According to the report, Climate change impacts could drive up to 1.6 million additional people into poverty by 2050, further compounding drivers of fragility across most...

Highlights: The CPIA is an annual diagnostic tool for countries eligible for financing from the International Development Association (IDA), the part of the World Bank that helps the world’s poorest countries. The...

Nutrition smart agriculture (NSmartAg) is a set of agriculture and agro-processing technologies and practices that contribute to the improvement of nutrition and increase of the farm and agribusiness-level productivity and revenue. One critical step...

This document aims to guide the design, implementation, and use of studies to value the benefits and costs of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) for climate resilience projects. Reliable quantification of the costs and benefits...

Highlights Economic recovery has gathered pace, with growth reaching 4.1 percent in 2022, despite the worsening global economy. Agriculture and services saw good performance...

The objectives of this note are to provide a brief overview of the Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) concept and framework, outline synergies between ASP and disaster risk management (DRM)...

Agricultural firms in rural areas of developing countries may decide to implement aggregation schemes, typically through contract farming arrangements (CFAs). While firms’ rationale...

Good jobs are the surest pathway out of poverty. Over the last decade, rising labor incomes directly accounted for 40 percent of the drop in poverty worldwide...

Undernutrition imposes a staggering cost worldwide, both in human and economic terms. It is responsible for the deaths of more than 3.5 million children each year (more than one-third...