Acknowledgements for the First Edition of the Agriculture Investment Sourcebook

The preparation of this Sourcebook involved a large number of people from within all units of the World Bank working on agriculture, and a variety of partner organizations. The design, and day-to-day coordination of the Sourcebook, has been carried out by Gary Alex and Sam Kane (ARD consultants), and the overall task has been managed by Derek Byerlee and Eija Pehu (ARD), who collectively assume responsibility for remaining errors and omissions. Agricultural and Rural Development Thematic Groups (TGs) coordinated the preparation of several of the modules, specifically: Sustainable Agricultural Systems and Knowledge Institutions (SASKI) (Modules 2, 3, and 4); the NRM Thematic Group (Module 5); the Private Sector and Agribusiness Thematic Group (Module 6); Land Policies Thematic Group (Module 9); Community-Driven Rural Development (part of Module 11); and the Gender Thematic Group (gender-related input across all modules). Individuals within these teams who merit special recognition include: Marie-Hélene Collion (MNA), Francois Le Gall (AFR), Kees van der Meer (ARD), Wael Zakout (EAP), John Bruce (ARD), Klaus Deininger (DEC), Idah Pswarayi-Riddihough (EAP), Jaime Webbe (AFR), Melissa Williams (ARD) and Daniel Sellen (SAR). A number of individuals played a leading role in other modules, especially Jock Anderson (ARD) and John Nash (ARD) (Module 1); Douglas Pearce (CGAP), Andrew Goodland (EAP), and Kees Van der Meer (ARD) (Module 7); Safwat Abdel-Dayem (ARD), and Ariel Dinar (ARD) (Module 8); Jock Anderson (ARD) and Panayotis Varangis (ARD) (Module 10); and Shawki Barghouti (ARD), and Sushma Ganguly (ARD) (Module 11).

Many individuals made written contributions to module overviews and good practice notes. From within the World Bank, these included: Safwat Abdel-Dayem (ARD), Gary Alex (ARD consultant), Mubarik Ali (ARD), Jock Anderson (ARD consultant), Amitabh Brar (CGAP Consultant), Shawki Barghouti (ARD), John Bruce (ARD), Derek Byerlee (ARD), Marie-Hélène Collion (MNA), Sanjiva Cooke (ARD), Cristophe Crepin (AFR), Cees de Haan (ARD consultant), Klaus Deininger (DEC), Ariel Dinar (ARD), Nina Doetinchem (AFR), Graham Eele (DEC), Enos Eskuri (ENV), Erick Fernandez (ARD), Andrew Goodland (EAP), Matthias Grueninger (MNA), Sam Kane (ARD consultant), Francois Le Gall (AFR), Annabel Mulder (ARD consultant), John Nash (ARD), Ridley Nelson (OED), Walter Ochs (ARD consultant), Nwanze Okidegbe (ARD), Douglas Olson (EAP), Douglas Pearce (CGAP), Eija Pehu (ARD), Herve Plusquellec (Consultant), Idah Pswarayi-Riddihough (EAP), Annu Ratta (ARD consultant), Pierre Rondot (ARD), Tijan Sallah (AFR), Kristina Sorby (ARD consultant), Amal Talbi (ARD), Kees van der Meer (ARD), Panayotis Varangis (ARD), Jaime Webbe (AFR), Melissa Williams (ARD), Johannes Woelcke (ARD), Wael Zakout (EAP), and Ronald Zweig (EAP).

Contributors to the module overviews and good practice notes from outside the Bank included; Jacqueline Ashby (Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical), Duncan Burnett (National Resources Institute), Pavla Cornejo (Development Alternatives Inc.), Octavio Damiani (IFAD), Timothy Donnay (USAID), Carl Eicher (Michigan State University), Gerd Fleischer (GTZ), Wayne Frank (USAID), Eleni Gabre-Madhin (formerly International Food Policy Research Institute and now AFR, World Bank),