A Harvest of Practical Insights : Lessons Learned in Agriculture, Agribusiness, Sustainable Rural Development, and Climate Change
This IFC SmartBook is a compilation of sixteen IFC SmartLessons that presents practical lessons learned by staff from across the IFC and the World Bank on approaches for engaging in agriculture that have led to success. Agribusiness is a crucial ec...
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2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/510561468154778270/A-harvest-of-practical-insights-lessons-learned-in-agriculture-agribusiness-sustainable-rural-development-and-climate-change http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27423 |
| Summary: | This IFC SmartBook is a compilation of
sixteen IFC SmartLessons that presents practical lessons
learned by staff from across the IFC and the World Bank on
approaches for engaging in agriculture that have led to
success. Agribusiness is a crucial economic sector, for food
security of course, for managing water stress and ecosystem
services, but also as a source of employment in emerging
markets. The report includes the following lessons. Sowing
the seeds of sustainability : a case project with Unifrutti,
IFC, and smallholder banana farmers in the Philippines, by
Natalie Macawaris, Colin Taylor, and Carla Zamora-Galinato.
Harvesting the fruits of your hard work, frustration, and
patience : implementing an agribusiness project in Kandahar,
Afghanistan, by Hazem Hanbal and Selcuk Tanatar. Taking
Haitian agriculture to the cloud : implementing google apps
for government at the ministry of agriculture, by Diego
Arias and Nicolas Weber. Fish farmers meet new technology:
raising the aquaculture productivity of small farmers in
Assam, by Grahame Dixie and Manivannan Pathy. Grain by grain
: from Punjab to global - lessons from the breadbasket of
India, by Jay Lurie and Neeraj Gupta. From crisis response
to sustainable strategy : addressing food security in Nepal,
by Gayatri Acharya and Mirella Hernani. Adapting to climate
change in Bangladesh : stress-tolerant seeds for
stress-prone regions, by Anika Ali and Mrinal Sircar.
Assessing the carbon benefits of improved land management
technologies, by Ademola Braimoh. The fun and the defiance
of innovation : going redd in the forests of Mexico, by
Graciela Reyes Retana, María Carolina Hoyos, and Laurent
Debroux. More than just hot air : carbon market access and
climate-smart agriculture for smallholder farmers, by
Johannes Woelcke. Go lite ! Increasing scale and impact by
combining diagnostics and training lessons from the Ukraine
food safey project, by sarah ockman. Keeping it fresh! : how
new packaging and distribution improved the fruit and
vegetable supply chain in Ukraine, by fedir rybalko and ebbe
johnson. To WII or not to WII? : practical lessons from
implementing weather index insurance for agriculture, by the
Agricultural Risk Management Team of the Agriculture and
Rural Development Department of the World Bank. Supporting
smallholders while promoting farmer-controlled cooperatives
in china, by Achim Fock and Jun Zhao. Connecting fruit
suppliers and processors : a comprehensive approach in
Ukraine, by Oksana Varodi. It's all about teamwork :
unlocking opportunities for agribusiness in Ukraine, by
Alberto Criscuolo and Shaela Rahman. |
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