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The World Bank Group’s Agriculture Action Plan: FY2013-2015, currently under preparation, will presents the next three year phase of the World Bank Group's commitment to agriculture and in combination with the FY10-12 action plan, will provide a continuous six year period of operationalizing the World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development. It follows on from the Agriculture Action Plan: FY10-12, which outlined the scaled-up World Bank Group commitment to improve agriculture's role in providing food security, in raising incomes of the poor, and in providing environmental services.
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Topics of Interest | | Latest Publications |  | Climate-Smart Agriculture:
Climate-smart farming techniques would increase farm productivity and incomes, and make agriculture more resilient to climate change, while also contributing to mitigation.
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| | MAKING THE GRADE: Smallholder Farmers, Emerging Standards, and Development Assistance Programs in Africa
|  | ICT in Agriculture:
ARD has released its first-ever electronic Economic Sector Work (ESW) publication. Available at a new web portal (www.ictinagriculture.org), the book is a compilation of modules related to 14 agricultural subsectors. Each module covers the challenges, lessons learned, and enabling factors associated with using ICT to improve smallholder livelihoods in these subsectors. More>>>
| | MISSING FOOD:The Case of Postharvest Grain Losses in Sub-Saharan Africa
Practitioners' Toolkit for Agriculture Public Expenditure Analysis |  | Gender in Agriculture:
The Gender and Rural Development team of ARD, in collaboration with FAO and IFAD, has launched a new online platform dedicated to gender and agriculture. This platform is designed to provide a space for practitioners to access resources, tools and information which can help mainstream gender into agricultural development. It is dedicated to raising gender awareness and improving gender mainstreaming to promote improved gender equality and gender equity in development. More>>>
| | World Livestock Disease Atlas Weather Index Insurance for Agriculture: Guidance for Development Practitioners
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The Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) Trust Fund is a multilateral financing mechanism to assist in the implementation of pledges made by the G8+ leaders at the L'Aquila Summit in July 2009. 
Global Food Crisis - The World Bank Group's Deal on Global Food Policy has been endorsed by 150 countries. The Bank's main contribution to emergency response under the New Deal is the Global Food Crisis Response Program. 
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