[EQ] World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development

World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development

 

The World Bank, October  2007

 

Available online at: http://go.worldbank.org/LBJZD6HWZ0

 

Press Release: http://go.worldbank.org/IUIGDTF9M0

 

October 19, 2007 – World Development Report 2008 calls for greater investment in agriculture in developing countries.The report warns that the sector must be placed at the center of the development agenda if the goals of halving extreme poverty and hunger by 2015 are to be realized.

·         While 75 percent of the world’s poor live in rural areas in developing countries, a mere 4 percent of official development assistance goes to agriculture.

·         In Sub-Saharan Africa, a region heavily reliant on agriculture for overall growth, public spending for farming is also only 4 percent of total government spending and the sector is still taxed at relatively high levels.

·         For the poorest people, GDP growth originating in agriculture is about four times more effective in raising incomes of extremely poor people than GDP growth originating outside the sector

 

 

Published October 19, 2007

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Table of Contents, Foreword, Acknowledgements & Abbreviations

Overview

Part I: What can Agriculture do for Development?

Chapter 1: Growth and Poverty Reduction in Agriculture

Focus A: Declining rural poverty has been a key factor in aggregate poverty reduction

Chapter 2: Agriculture's performance, diversity, and uncertainities

Focus B: Biofuels: the promise and the risks

Chapter 3: Rural households and their pathways out of poverty

Focus C: What are the links between agricultural production and food security?

Part II: What are effective instruments for using agriculture for development?

Chapter 4: Reforming trade, price, and subsidy policies

Chapter 5: Bringing agriculture to the market

Focus D: Agribusiness for development

Chapter 6: Supporting smallholder competitiveness through institutional innovations

Chapter 7: Innovating through science and technology

Focus E: Capturing the benefits for genetically modified organisms for the poor

Chapter 8: Making agricultural systems more environmentally sustainable

Focus F: Adaptation to and mitigation of climate change in agriculture

Chapter 9: Moving beyond the farm

Focus G: Education and skills for rural development

Focus H: The two-way links between agriculture and health

Part III: How can agriculture-for-development agendas best be implemented?

Chapter 10: Emerging national agendas for agriculture

Chapter 11: Strengthening governance, from local to global

Bibliographical Note

Endnotes

Selected Indicators

Index

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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