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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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| Featured |  Putting Food First: Global Action is Critical
Food Security is once again taking center stage amid high and volatile food prices. More >>>
| The Rio+20 meetings will be held in Rio de Janerio, Brazil from June 20-22, 2012. The World Bank and Rio+20. Click here for more information. Link to the official Rio+20 Dialogues website.
 | Agriculture and Rural Development Day at Rio+20: The ARDD will hold its flagship event during Rio +20 in June. This is a one-day event that brings together policy makers, farmers, scientists and development experts and gives them the opportunity to renew their commitment to what United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called "a sustainable green economy." The purpose of Agriculture and Rural Development Day – the fourth in a series of annual events – is to ensure that such a vision includes clear steps toward sustainable food systems. Participants will chart a way forward, reinforce alliances, and identify ways to measure progress. Click here to register. | Flagships |  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. More >>>
|  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. More >>>
|  Rising Global Interest in Farmland, is a multi-country analysis of large scale land acquisitions. A short note highlights the key issues in the report and the Bank's work with partners regarding Responsible Agro-Investment. An eDiscussion is now posted where readers can share their perspectives on the results. More >>>
|  The Knowledge Exchange Platform for Responsible Agro-Investment is designed as a 'one stop shop' for policy makers, practitioners, and stakeholders who want to know what adhering to the Principles for Responsible Agricultural Investment consists of.
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Topics of Interest | | Partnership Websites |  | Agriculture and Innovation Systems:
Agricultural development depends on innovation and is a major source of improved productivity, competitiveness, and economic growth throughout advanced and emerging economies. Innovation plays an important role in creating jobs, generating income, alleviating poverty, and driving social development. More >>>
| | Agrifin - Agriculture Finance Support Facility
FARM-D: Forum for Agricultural Risk Management in Development
|  | 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.More >>>
| | Global Agiculture and Food Security Program Gender in Agriculture |  | 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 >>> | | ICT in Agriculture Knowledge Exchange Platform for Responsible Agro-Investment (RAI) Livestock Data Innovation in Africa
Program on Forests | | | Price Volatility in Food and Agricultural Markets: Policy Responses [PDF] - Policy Report including contributions by FAO, IFAD, IMF, OECD, UNCTAD, WFP, The World Bank, The WTO, IFPRI and the UN HLTF | | |
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