The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) has been one of the most successful research-for-development organizations over the past 40 years. The $11 billion invested by CGIAR...
The World Bank Group has a unique opportunity to match the increases in financing for agriculture with a sharper focus on improving agricultural growth and productivity in agriculture-based economies...
The World Bank Group has a unique opportunity to match the increases in financing for agriculture with a sharper focus on improving agricultural growth and productivity in agriculture-based economies...
This review shows that our knowledge about the benefits and costs of new reform models is current still skimpy. Most models that have been studied combine different reform elements, such as changes in...
The paper reviews the origins and evolution of the Training and Visit (T&V) extension system, which was promoted by the World Bank in 1975-98 in over 50 developing countries. The discussion seeks to clarify...
This article provides a framework outlining farmers demand for information, the public goods character of extensions services, and the organizational and the political attributes affecting the performance...
How have the world's poorest fared since the early 1980s? ; by Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion. Much ado about nothing? Do domestic firms really benefit from foreign direct investment ?; by Holger Gorg...
Over the past dozen years, policymakers have largely abandoned long-standing popular approaches for addressing risk in agriculture without fully resolving the question of how best to manage the negative...
"Community-based and -driven development : a critical review" by Ghazala Mansuri and Vijayendra Rao. "Agricultural extension : good intentions and hard realities" by Jock R. Anderson and Gershon Feder...
This study assesses the relevance of risk-analysis findings to rural development in impoverished countries around the world. The scope of the present review was limited to discuss risks in rural areas...
This policy note proposes that the Government of Indonesia retain many of its traditional rice policy objectives while implementing them in a more transparent and cost-effective manner. Possible near-...
This report was prepared to provide background for a more general study of what was known as the World Bank's Special Grant Program (SGP), and more recently, the successor program supported through the...
Cofinanced public extension in Nicaragua. Reconsidering agricultural extension. Globalization and inequality: past and present. The policymaking uses of multitopic household survey data: a primer. Formal...
The institutional design of agricultural extension programs in developing countries has always been subject to heated debate. But whereas previous disagreements centered on the relative efficacy of different...
This report contains the papers that were presented at the Twelfth Annual Agricultural Sector Symposium. The theme of the Symposium was public and private roles in agricultural development. It addressed...
Soil degradation in many developing countries constitutes a serious ecological and economic problem. Assessing ecosystems that are susceptible to soil erosion and measuring the extent and cost of damage...
The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) supports thirteen international research and training centers throughout the world. This study offers a comprehensive assessment of...
The progress in agricultural research within Nepal should be a vital component in the country's agriculture sector especially since the sector is in a state of decline which contributes to an overall poor...
The collaboration between the international agricultural research centers and the national agricultural research system of Bangladesh has been very important to the growth of agricultural research and...
This paper uses a simulation model to measure the size of the social welfare gains from price stabilization within the general setting of a non-linear multiplicative risk and lagged expectations model...