Poverty remains pervasive, and its incidence and intensity are usually higher in rural than in urban areas. The international community recognizes that reducing world poverty is one of the major development...
The World Bank's Rural Development Family invited guests to explore new ideas for the Bank's work with its clients each year during Rural Week. This year's event focused on rural poverty in the context...
Rural development is more than just expanding agricultural output and growth in real per capita agricultural income. In many developing countries, agriculture is not the sole sector - sometimes not even...
In rural areas, land is an essential productive asset and a means to sustain a livelihood. Access to land is important for household welfare, aggregate economic growth, and sustainable reduction of poverty...
Each year the Rural Development family of the World Bank holds a conference, now called Rural Week, where staff from headquarters and the field and a few invited guests assemble to discuss a range of issues...
Despite improvements in health, nutrition, and other factors important to the human condition, by the year 2025 as many as 1,000 million people of a projected 8,000 million could suffer from malnutrition...