Agriculture World Bank
Feb 19, 2012
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Sheep on the Banks Peninsula Photo Mugs Sheep on the Banks Peninsula, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand, Pacific…. |
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Genetic Chile $9.95 This film is about the entire food supply and how it is being left vulnerable by the collusion of multi-national corporations and the United States Government. It is a non-hysterical rebuttal to the glossy brochures and reason-without-morality wishful thinking of the backers of genetically modified foods.Genetic Chile is a look into the world of genetically modified foods through the lens of New M… |
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Photo Jigsaw Puzzle of Sheep on the Banks Peninsula from Robert Harding Photo Puzzle, Sheep on the Banks Peninsula. Sheep on the Banks Peninsula, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand, Pacific. Chosen by Robert Harding. 10×14 Photo Puzzle with 252 pieces. Packed in black cardboard box of dimensions 5 5/8 x 7 5/8 x 1 1/5. Puzzle image 5×7 affixed to box top. Puzzle pieces printed on RA4 paper at 300 dpi. This item is shipped from our American lab…. |
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The Food Wars $8.04 Crucial analysis of how the West created the global food crisis.Violent protests across the global South, in response to rocketing food prices from 2006 to 2008, highlighted an intrinsic flaw in the modern system of world tradeâone that poses a serious threat to regional and international stability. In The Food Wars, Walden Bello traces the evolution of this crisis, examining its eruption in … |
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Science, Technology, and Innovation: Capacity Building for Sustainable Growth (Directions in Development) $25.50 This book summarizes, and highlights main messages from, a February 2007 Global Forum convened by the World Bank to discuss strategies, programs, and policies for building science, technology and innovation (STI) capacity to promote sustainable growth and poverty reduction in developing countries…. |
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World Development Report 2008: Agriculture and Development (World Development Report) $25.99 The world’s demand for food is expected to double within the next 50 years, while the natural resources that sustain agriculture will become increasingly scarce, degraded, and vulnerable to the effects of climate change. In many poor countries, agriculture accounts for at least 40 percent of GDP and 80 percent of employment. At the same time, about 70 percent of the world’s poor live in rural area… |
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Agriculture Livelihood in Disadvantaged Agriculture $108.33 The sizeable public sector resources in India have began to flow in livelihood sector in Disadvantaged Agriculture. Improvement in Agriculture Livelihood in Disadvantaged Agriculture has potentials to counter poverty destitution of farming community. The technology based interventions are being disseminated to enhance livelihood of farming community in Disadvantaged Agriculture through different livelihood programs being undertaken. The public sector is collaborating with civil society organisations and private sector to refine and transfer agriculture technology for livelihood enhancement of farming community living in Disadvantaged Agriculture. The technology transfer paradigm of Green Revolution era has given way to institution based transfer of technology through consortium mode of working in implementation of livelihood programs. The consortium mode of working has become a dominant technology transfer paradigm in Disadvantaged Agriculture in Indian context. The present book depicts the implementation plan of Livelihood Programs in Disadvantaged Agriculture with reference to World Bank funded National Agriculture Innovation Project (NAIP). Author: Roy, Amit/ Chakrabarty, Suhrita Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 76 Publication Date: 2011/03/06 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.02 x 0.18 inches |
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Agriculture in World History $34.94 The survival of the human race since earliest times has depended on its exploitation of the land through agriculture. Mark Tauger looks at farming in early civilizations – from ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt to early China and India – and asks how it is that since farmers have played a critical role in the fate of the species that they have never enjoyed high social status. Following medieval farming through to imperialism, agricultural revolution, then to decolonisation, the Depression and the Cold War, this wide-ranging survey brings the story of farming right up to the present day. It examines contentious current issues such as contrasting aspects of overproduction and famine, the role of the World Bank and the IMF, environmental issues and GMO. Accessibly written and following a chronological structure, this introduction illuminates key themes such as economic theories of agriculture, the demands of a growing population, how labour is organised and the political and cultural impact of agriculture throughout the world. |
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World Development Report: Agriculture for Development $29.99 World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development seeks to assess where, when, and how agriculture can be an effective instrument for economic development, especially development that favors the poor. It examines several broad questions: – How has agriculture changed in developing countries in the past 20 years? What are the important new challenges and opportunities for agriculture? – Which new sources of agricultural growth can be captured cost effectively in particular in poor countries with large agricultural sectors as in Africa? – How can agricultural growth be made more effective for poverty reduction? – How can governments facilitate the transition of large populations out of agriculture, without simply transferring the burden of rural poverty to urban areas? – How can the natural resource endowment for agriculture be protected? How can agriculture’s negative environmental effects be contained? This year’s report marks the 30th year the World Bank has been publishing the World Development Report. |
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African Agriculture and The World Bank: Development or Impoverishment? $23.35 No Synopsis Available |
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Growth and Productivity in Agriculture and Agribusiness: Evaluative Lessons from World Bank Group Experience $24.69 The report assesses the World Bank Group ‘s support for growth and productivity in the agriculture sector. Enhancing agricultural growth and productivity is essential to meeting the worldwide demand for food and to reducing poverty, particularly in the poorest developing countries. Between 1998 and 2008, the period covered by this evaluation, the World Bank Group (WBG) provided $23.7 billion in financing for agriculture and agribusiness in 108 countries (roughly 8 percent of total WBG financing), spanning areas from irrigation and marketing to research and extension. However, this was a time of declining focus on agricultural growth and productivity by both countries and donors. The cost of inadequate attention to agriculture, especially in agriculture-based economies, came into focus with the food crisis of 2007-08. The crisis added momentum to an emerging renewal of attention and stepped-up financing to agriculture and agribusiness at the World Bank and International Finance Corporation (IFC), as well as at several multilateral and bilateral agencies. World Bank financing rose two and a half times from 2008 to 2009, though that increase in lending seems to have been accompanied by a decline in analytical work, which this review finds valuable for results. This evaluation seeks to provide lessons from successes and failures to help improve the development impact of the renewed attention to the sector. Ratings against the World Bank ‘s stated objectives and IFC ‘s market-based benchmarks for agriculture and agribusiness projects have been equal to or above portfolio averages in East Asia, Latin America, and the transition economies in Europe, with notable successes over a long period in China and India. But performance of WBG interventions has been well below average in Sub-Saharan Africa, where IFC has had little engagement in agribusiness. Inconsistent client commitment and weak capacity have limited the effectiveness of WBG support in agriculture-based economies, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, and constraints on staffing and internal coordination within the WBG have also hurt outcomes. Financial sustainability has been constrained by insufficient government funding and the difficulty of maintaining agricultural services and infrastructure. The WBG has a unique opportunity to match the increases in the financing for agriculture with sharper focus on improving agricultural growth and productivity in agriculture-based economies, notably in Sub-Saharan Africa. Greater effort will be needed to connect sectoral interventions and achieve synergies from public and private sector interventions; to build capacity and knowledge exchange; to take stock of experience in rain-fed agriculture; to ensure attention to financial sustainability and to cross-cutting issues of gender, environmental and social impacts, and climate; and to better integrate WBG support at the global and regional levels with that at the country level. |
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World Bank Assistance to Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa : An IEG Review $31.06 No Synopsis Available |
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Bank $3.95 Every July, a fresh crop of college graduates clad in spiffy new suits fills the offices of investment banking firms, each newly minted analyst longing for big money while sacrificing anything that resembles a normal life. In this enormously entertaining first novel, a lovable, stressed-out guy nicknamed Mumbles tells the story of how he and his cohorts not only struggle to survive corporate purgatory, but also find satisfying ways to strike back at the system. Fueled by a constant flow of Starbucks coffee, Mumbles and his friends take on such tasks as secretly filming a despised colleague’s boardroom romp with an assistant, creating footage they plan to broadcast at the company’s holiday party. But true gratification comes only when they actually start standing up to the bank’s evil minions, those who have no qualms about piling on a weekend’s worth of work on a Friday afternoon. With sharp comedy, episodes of inspired hijinks, and its glimpse into a world of fleeting elevator romances and not-so-infrequent nervous breakdowns, BANK is a touching and lively novel that is, at its heart, about figuring out what really matters in life. |
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A Guide to the World Bank By World Bank $35.05 Author: World Bank (COR) Publication Date: 2011/06/29 Number of Pages: 261 Binding Type: Paperback Language: English Depth: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Height: 9.00 |
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Agriculture Investment Sourcebook $29.79 Investing to promote agricultural growth and poverty reduction is a central pillar of the World Bank’s current rural strategy, Reaching the Rural Poor (2003). One major thrust of the strategy outlines the priorities and the approaches that the public sector, private sector, and civil society can employ to enhance productivity and competitiveness of the agricultural sector in ways that reduce the rural poverty and sustain the natural resource base. These actions involve a rich mixture of science, technology, people, communication, management, learning, research, capacity building, institutional development, and grassroots participation. This Sourcebook addresses how to implement the rural strategy, by sharing information on investment options and identifying innovative approaches that will aid the design of future lending programs for agriculture. It provides generic good practices and many examples that demonstrate investment in agriculture can provide rewarding and sustainable returns to development efforts. It is divided into eleven self-contained modules. Each module contains three different types of subunits that can also be stand-alone documents: I. Module Overview, II. Agricultural Investment Notes, III. Innovative Activity Profiles. The stand-alone nature of the subunits allows flexibility and adaptability of the material, as well selected readings and web links are provided for readers who seek more in-depth information. The Sourcebook draws on a wide range of experience from donor agencies, governments, institutions, and other groups active in agricultural development. It is an invaluable reference tool for policy makers, professionals, academics and students, and anyone with an interest in agricultural investments. |
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Perspectives in World Food Agriculture $271.61 The second volume in a series designed to keep the agricultural leaders of today and tomorrow in both industry and academe abreast of the latest, most uptodate information concerning global agriculture. Aimed at faculty, undergraduate and graduate students in colleges of agriculture, policy makers, government and industry scientists, public libraries, farmers and agribusiness operators, this book is the key to keeping current on agricultural research and policy. Author: Miranowski, John A./ Scanes, Colin G. Series Title: Perspectives in World Food and Agriculture Series Number: 2 Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 334 Publication Date: 2005/07/01 Language: English Dimensions: 9.16 x 6.36 x 1.06 inches |
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Growth and Productivity in Agriculture and Agribusiness : Evaluative Lessons from World Bank Group Experience $13.41 No Synopsis Available |
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Intellectual Property Rights in Agriculture: The World Bank’s Possible Future Role in Assisting Borrower and Member Countries $24.38 No Synopsis Available |
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The World Bank: Lending on a Global Scale $38.49 A broad range of international contributors assess the impact of the World Bank on the modern world. Topics covered include: structural adjustment in Africa, the history of the Bank, development projects, cross-cultural coalitions, and the politics of the World Bank. |
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The World Bank: Structure and Policies $124.27 The World Bank is dedicated to the promotion of sustainable economic development and to poverty reduction throughout the developing world. The contributors to this volume argue the Banks greatest asset is its accumulated knowledge and experience of the development process, and propose that it organize itself around the concept of a Knowledge Bank. Part I examines the World Bank as an institution, examining its structure. In Part II the effectiveness of World Bank assistance is evaluated. Author: Gilbert, Christopher L./ Vines, David Series Title: Global Economic Institutions Series Number: 3 Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 360 Publication Date: 2006/11/02 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.80 inches |
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50 World Bank Notes $19.98 Bank notes from around the world provide a colorful look at the old and new currencies of different countries. Each set contains notes of different denominations, mint years and countries. |
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A Guide to the World Bank $25.87 This completely revised and updated third edition provides an accessible and straightforward overview of the World Bank Group’s history, organization, mission, and purpose. Additionally, for those wishing to delve further into subjects of particular interest, the book guides readers to sources containing more detailed information, including annual reports, Web sites, publications, and e-mail addresses for various departments. It also provides information on how to work for or do business with the World Bank.A good introduction for anyone interested in understanding what the World Bank Group does and how it does it, this book shows readers who want to learn more where to begin. |
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The Globalizers: The IMF, the World Bank, and Their Borrowers $24.38 A fresh look inside the IMF and World Bank’s positive and negative impacts worldwide along with practical recommendations for reform. |
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Conservation Agriculture $81.25 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Conservation agriculture can best be thought of as by the statement given out by the FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations) CA is a concept for resourcesaving agricultural crop production that strives to achieve acceptable profits together with high and sustained production levels while concurrently conserving the environment (FAO 2007). With conservation agriculture (CA) there are two important elements that come with this process, two products that would seem unlikely put together. Agriculture and Conservation are two elements that seem unlikely but can coexist with each other. Agriculture according to the New Standard Encyclopedia is one of the most important sectors in the economies of most nations (New Standard 1992). At the same time conservation is the use of resources in a manner that safely maintains a resource that can be used by humans. Conservation has become critical on the fact that the world population has increased over the years and more food needs to be produced every year (New Standard 1992). Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 108 Publication Date: 2010/08/02 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.25 inches |
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Sustainability in Agriculture $34.53 World trade in agriculture, with its massive subsidies, restrictive barriers, international collaboration and competition, and the livelihoods of millions of farmers worldwide at stake, is an emotive subject that often provokes heated debate. So how can sustainability in agriculture be addressed whilst taking these issues into account? "Sustainability in Agriculture" presents an authoritative and balanced overview of many of the key factors that impact upon world agricultural practices. The aim is to throw light on the subject and so generate informed and rational discussion of the topics which so often generate powerful emotions. The contributions from experts from around the globe cover: Free trade, Fair and unfair trade, GM crops, The use of pesticides, Change in land use and sustainable development and the Economic consequences of recent changes in the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union The timeliness of this book, discussing as it does many hotly debated issues, make it essential reading for all those having an interest in the future of agriculture worldwide, but especially farmers and students of farming, environmental scientists, government agencies and policy makers. |
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Joseph Stiglitz and the World Bank $35.17 In controversial speeches made around the world, Stiglitz has undone the conventional wisdom that dominated policy-making at the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the US Treasury Department. For the first time, Stiglitz’s nine most revealing speeches have been gathered together, covering such topics as the failure of shock therapy and transition economics, the limits of capital market liberalization, the myopia of the Washington consensus, the role of knowledge in markets, the process of developing market institutions and the primacy of openness and worker participation. A landmark collection of material for economists everywhere. |
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Water for Agriculture $382.36 World population is set to increase by a third in the next 25 years, with no corresponding increase in global rainfall. About seventy per cent of the worlds abstracted water is used in farming and therefore the economics of irrigation is becoming an increasingly important issue for sustainable development. Water for Agriculture provides a thorough overview of this highly topical subject, written in a clear and accessible style.The Scope of the book is wide both in its analysis and in its geographical coverage. Topics covered include the infrastructure, operation and maintenance of irrigation service supply, the supply of drainage services, economic cost benefit analysis, water resource planning at the regional scale, political economy and irrigation policy. The content of Water for Agriculture is enhanced by numerous tables, diagrams, and indepth case studies.This book will be an essential read for those professionals involved in the planning of water resources, and for advanced students studying this topic as part of agriculture, development studies, economics, engineering, environmental science, geography, hydrology and planning courses. Author: Merrett, Stephen/ Merrett, S./ Merrett Stephen Series Title: Spons Environmental Science and Engineering Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 256 Publication Date: 2001/12/29 Language: English Dimensions: 9.68 x 6.14 x 0.68 inches |
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The World Bank and Global Managerialism $74.39 In recent years, a great deal of scholarly and popular ink has been spilled on the subject of globalization. Relatively few scholars have addressed the political sociology of globalization, and specifically, the emergence of global class formations and a nascent global governance framework. This book is a contribution towards redressing this imbalance. The book traces the emergence of the World Bank as a key driver of globalization, and as a central source of an evolving form of elite-driven transnational governance which the author describes as ‘global managerialism’. The book argues that the Bank has expanded its sphere of activity far beyond provision of low-cost capital for development projects, and plays a central role in pursuing global economic and social policy homogenization.  The World Bank and Global Managerialism features a new theoretical approach to globalization, developed through an analytical exposition of the key stages in the institution’s growth since its creation at the Bretton Woods conference of 1944.  The author details the contemporary Bank’s central policy framework, which includes the intertwining of public and private initiatives and the extension of global governance into ever-wider policy and geographic spheres.  He also argues that contemporary globalization marks the emergence of a transnational elite, straddling the corporate, government, and civil society sectors.  The book provides two detailed case studies that demonstrate the practical analytical utility of the theory of global managerialism. The theoretical approach provides a robust but flexible framework for understanding contemporary global development.  It is essential reading for courses in areas such as International Organizations, Global Political Economy, and Globalization and its Discontents, and is also relevant to students of development policy and international economic architecture, among others. |
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The IMF and the World Bank at Sixty $39.97 As the Bretton Woods institutions enter their sixtieth year, they face a number of challenges. Some are the result of changes that have occurred in the world economy while others are the outcome of their approaches to the problems of stabilization and development, and of their own governance structure. The IMF and the World Bank at Sixty presents a selection of essays prepared for the Group of Twenty-Four Developing Nations (G24), by some of the foremost authorities in their fields, which address these challenges and suggest the need for reform in several areas. Ariel Buira’s introduction presents a critical overview of the functioning of the IMF and the international monetary system, underscoring a number of shortcomings that could be remedied to make it more supportive of development through changes in governance. The other essays focus on two areas: financial issues, particularly the prevention of financial crises; and secondly, the policies of the Bretton Woods institutions. These essays have onefundamental aim: to improve the functioning of the global economy and to better enable the developing countries to share in the gains in prosperity of recent decades. |
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World Development Indicators 2011 By World Bank (COR) $100.62 Author: World Bank (COR) Series Title: World Development Indicators Publication Date: 2011/04/15 Number of Pages: 435 Binding Type: Paperback Language: English Depth: 1.00 Width: 8.75 Height: 11.25 |
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Feeding the World: An Economic History of Agriculture, 1800-2000 $29.5 In the last two centuries, agriculture has been an outstanding, if somewhat neglected, success story. Agriculture has fed an ever-growing population with an increasing variety of products at falling prices, even as it has released a growing number of workers to the rest of the economy. This book, a comprehensive history of world agriculture during this period, explains how these feats were accomplished. "Feeding the World" synthesizes two hundred years of agricultural development throughout the world, providing all essential data and extensive references to the literature. It covers, systematically, all the factors that have affected agricultural performance: environment, accumulation of inputs, technical progress, institutional change, commercialization, agricultural policies, and more. The last chapter discusses the contribution of agriculture to modern economic growth. The book is global in its reach and analysis, and represents a grand synthesis of an enormous topic. |
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Agroecology: The Science of Sustainable Agriculture $61.78 This new edition builds on the explosion of research on sustainable agriculture since the late 1980s. By separating myth from reality, Miguel Altieri extracts the key principles of sustainable agriculture and expounds on management systems that "really work." Providing case studies of sustainable rural development in developing countries, he goes beyond a mere description of practices to include data that reveal the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of alternative projects.Each chapter of "Agroecology" has been enriched and updated with the latest research results from around the world. New emphasis has been placed on such issues as the ecological economics of agriculture, policy changes needed for promoting sustainable agriculture, rural development in the Third World, the role of biodiversity in agriculture, and new research methodologies. |
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Golf Themed Money Bank $9.99 A great gift item for your favorite golfer. Store your golfing money in this handy money bank.Unique designGift box available |
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Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank $62.13 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank is a stateowned bank in Bangladesh specialized financial institution for financing development of agriculture and its backward and forward linkage industries in the Rajshahi division of the country. The bank was established on 15 March 1987. The bank emerged as the governments plan of intensive care to agriculture of Rajshahi division providing livelihood to 35 million people of the area. The region is less developed compared to other parts of the country, yet full of potentials in agriculture. Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Tennoe, Mariam T./ Henssonow, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 72 Publication Date: 2010/09/30 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.17 inches |
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