2.2   Administrative history      See WB IBRD/IDA A0004

2.4  Source    Transferred from the Sector

3.1     Scope and content   The content of this fonds reflects a very small portion of the work of the Agriculture and Rural Development Sector.  Only the subject files of the director of the Economics and Policy Division, of the forestry and fisheries specialists, and of the irrigation engineering adviser are included.  Of these, the records relating to forestry are the most complete and have the greatest potential for research use, as do the records of water policy found in both the records of the irrigation and drainage seminars and in the fisheries records.

3.2     Appraisal, destruction, scheduling  During the years 1972-1986 the official files of the Agriculture and Rural Development Sector were kept by the Non-Regional Information Center; these records are part of Fonds WB IBRD/IDA 02.  Many offices kept separate working files, however, and the working files of the Agriculture and Rural Development Sector make up the records in this fonds, along with records created after 1986.  The records of the Sector were appraised and scheduled in 1991.  Subsequent moves by the Sector resulted in the destruction of many records, both scheduled and unscheduled, with the result that only the records of one division director and two specialists have been transferred to the archives.  In addition, although the surviving records show that the Sector staff was using computers by 1975 and by 1982 had a “data bank” on agriculture, none of the databases are in the archives.

3.3     Accruals                      Accurals are expected.

3.4  Arrangement               Arranged in 5 series:

                                              1.  Subject files of the Office of the Director of the Economics and

                                                   Policy Division

                                              2.  Subject files of the forestry program

                                              3.  Subject files of the fisheries program

                                              4.  Reference materials on agricultural policies

                                              5.  Conference and seminar files of the irrigation engineering adviser

4.1     Conditions of access     Records are subject to the World Bank Policy on the Disclosure of Information.

4.2     Conditions of reproduction  Records are subject to the World Bank Policy on Copyright.

4.3     Language/scripts     English, some French and Spanish

5.3    Related units of description  WB IBRD/IDA 02, Central Files; WB IBRD/IDA 44, Oral histories, particularly those of Warren C. Baum, Hollis B. Chenery, Willi Wappenhans, and Montague Yudelman; WB IBRD/IDA 46, Records of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research; WB IBRD/IDA 48, Records of the Consultative Group on Food Production and  Investment in Developing Countries

7.2     Rules or conventions       Internal World Bank Group Archives rules

7.3  Date(s) of descriptions     2003-01-22