Global attention was focused on food price volatility in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Governments initiated policy measures to ensure food security of populations, which included increasing food reserves as well as measures to reduce food wastage, including wastage due to poor storage and handling.
... See More + One solution identified by countries running large food security programs was to introduce public-private partnerships (PPPs) in food storage, especially for storage of grain. The positive impacts of PPPs in this sector could be huge given the inefficiencies in grain storage and the large proportion of post-harvest wastage especially in the handling and storage of grain in developing countries.
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This issue includes the following headings: seeds and soil: smallholder agriculture; innovation: pairing commercial buyers with rural producers; grain storage: a ready role for public-private partnerships (PPPs); agricultural clusters: powering Africa's agricultural potential; and interviews: AgDevCo, bill and Melinda gates foundation, earth policy institute.
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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.
... See More + 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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Working Paper 72690 MAR 01, 2012
Acharya,Gayatri; Ali,Anika; Arias Carballo,Diego; Braimoh,Ademola; Criscuolo,Alberto; Debroux,Laurent; Dixie,Grahame; Fock,Achim; Gupta,Neeraj; Hanbal,Hazem Ibrahim; Hernani,Mirella; Hoyos, María Carolina; Johnson,Ebbe Carl Vigen; Lurie,Jay Brandon; Macawaris,Natalie D.; Cruikshank Ockman,Sarah Jane; Pathy,Manivannan; Rahman,Shaela; Reyes Retana De La Torre,Graciela; Rybalko,Fedir Mykolayovych; Sircar,Mrinal Kanti; Tanatar,Selcuk; Taylor,Colin; Varodi,Oksana; Weber,Nicolas Carlos Marius; Woelcke,Johannes; Zamora-Galinato,Carla Mae; Zhao,JunDisclosed
This IFC SmartBook is a compilation of twelve IFC SmartLessons published between February and November and 2009 that focuses on the topic of conflict-affected countries.
... See More + IFC Advisory Services in Public-Private Partnerships helps governments implement public-private partnership transactions and expand private-sector participation to increase the quality and quantity of investments in infrastructure, health, and education, while limiting public sector funding and risk. This report highlights some of IFC's experiences and lessons learned in working on more than 277 projects in 88 countries over the past 21 years. The lessons that follow demonstrate the business case for private sector investment and show what worked and what should be done differently. The report includes the following lessons. Mission difficult, but not impossible... making public-private partnerships work for the poor, by Robert Taylor (February 2009). The value of the "value for money" approach when there's no money, by Juan Luis Flores (May 2009). Delivering the goods : multi-donor approaches to project development and funding, by John Hodges (September 2009). Bringing reliable electricity to rural areas of the Philippines,by William Trant Beloe, Art Cariaga, Marianna Fernando-Pacua, and Jed A. Sevilla (November 2009). Five keys to powering up a private-sector participation transaction : the Albanian experience, by Ariana Progri (November 2009). Ashta hydropower : turning a doubtful concept into a technological trailblazer, by Martin Sobek (May 2009). A first for IFC! : desalination project at King Abdulaziz Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, by Muneer Ferozie (February 2009). Never test the depth of the water with both feet : lessons from the sinking of the Bangalore water project, by Neeraj Gupta, and Neha Mehra (May 2009). Scaling up rural water supply service in Benin : a programmatic approach and budget support, by Sylvestre Bea, Claude Leroy-Themeze, and Christophe Prevost (November 2009). Dare to fail : counterintuitive lessons from mergers and acquisitions experience in the airline sector, by James Morley (February 2009). Breaking new ground : Lesotho hospital public-private partnership - a model for integrated health services delivery, by Carla Faustino Coelho And Catherine O'farrell (July 2009). Reappraisal of the private schools support programs in Ghana, Kenya, And Rwanda, by Brigid Amoako and Jane Onoka (May 2009).
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This country level trade brief summarizes insights from the world trade indicators database as well as analyzes national impacts and responses to the food crisis and global recession.
... See More + The trade at a glance tables for Finland provide a snapshot of key aspects of trade policy and performance.
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Today policymakers increasingly recognize that public-private partnerships (PPPs) in infrastructure offer the most promise for developing infrastructure and improving services.
... See More + Countries in South Asia face a dual challenge in infrastructure: many households and businesses lack access to services, and those that do have access suffer from unreliable and poor-quality service. This paper recommends minimizing restraints by: building consensus for PPPs, moving toward cost recovery, improving transparency, enhancing government capacity, fostering effective regulation, and easing financial constraints.
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Afghanistan has transformed its telecommunications from a fragmented system serving few people to a modern one putting Afghans in touch with one another and with the global economy.
... See More + The government moved quickly to approve a Telecommunications and Internet Policy in 2003, and identified telecommunications as one of the two lead sectors for attracting private and foreign investment. The experience in Afghanistan shows that wireless communications can play a critical role as the primary telecommunications infrastructure in a post-conflict country. The key factors in Afghanistan's success in developing its telecommunications sector have been strong government commitment, a pro-competitive reform agenda, early focus on regulatory reforms and capacity building, and a transparent bidding process.
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