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The rural economy in Bangladesh has been a powerful source of economic growth and has substantially reduced poverty, especially since 2000, but the remarkable transformation and unprecedented dynamism in rural Bangladesh are an underexplored, underappreciated, and largely untold story. The...
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measures; (vi) agriculture finance and risk management solutions; (vii) the agricultural knowledge and innovation system (AKIS … agriculture and rural development in Croatia, as the country prepares its National Agriculture and Rural Development Strategy and …) in the context of the macro-trends and issues affecting Croatian agriculture today, the ongoing EU CAP reform process …
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Mozambique's economy has experienced strong growth over the last two decades, with GDP expanding at an annual average rate of 7.2 percent. However, this growth has been unequally shared and rural areas still lag far behind urban centers in both monetary and non-monetary dimensions of wellbeing....
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This report applies the framework to diagnose the opportunities and constraints faced by the rural economy and households and to assess policy options to address these constraints. The approach builds on four steps. The first step consists in examining the socio-demographic profile and living...
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. Growth in agriculture has been sustained through the cash crops sector, which is relatively better than the food crop sector …
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going forward. This technical report covers the rapid assessment of agriculture finance and its recommendations, the … and risk exposure faced by small-scale farmers; chapter three offers an overview of the agriculture finance landscape; and … remaining chapters that present findings and make recommendations for scaling up agriculture insurance in Uganda and making …
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Bank to integrate climate change into the country's agriculture policy agenda through the Lesotho Climate-Smart Agriculture …
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contribution of the agriculture sector to the country's economic growth and diversification, employment creation, poverty reduction …, however, requires an integrated set of multi-sectoral policies. Synergistic public and private investments in agriculture …, water, and land can lead to increased production and productivity by transitioning from low returns from agriculture to high …
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Agriculture and the rural space will continue to demand the attention of policy makers in Bolivia for several reasons …, even as urbanization gains momentum. First, agriculture is a proven engine of economic growth. Aside from showing its … strength in decades past, in recent years agriculture shielded the Bolivian economy from the worst effects of the decline in …
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