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The World Bank ( WB ) is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. The institution is made up of two development institutions owned by 185 member countries: The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA). Each institution plays a different but supportive role in the WB mission of global poverty reduction and improvement of living standards. IBRD focuses on middle income and creditworthy poor countries, while IDA focuses on the poorest countries in the world. The WB provides low-interest loans,interest-free credits and grants to developing countries for a wide array of purposes that include investments in education, health, public administration, infrastructure, financial and private sector development, agriculture, and environmental and natural resource management.
The International Finance Corporation ( IFC ), the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) are WB affiliate institutions.
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Member Projects
Africa
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Agricultural markets and agribusiness development
World Bank Group (World Bank Group) | Development of Agricultural Exports would expand nontraditional agricultural exports (i.e., horticultural products, confectionary nuts, essential oils and spices, and processed foodstuffs) with an emphasis on beneficiaries’ participation. The beneficiaries are ...
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Agricultural rehabilitation and sustainable land management
World Bank Group (World Bank Group) | The project has a subcomponent on Pest Management. Consistent with the Project’s Pest Management Plan, producer organizations would receive training courses in integrated pest management and safe handling of pesticides. ...
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Improving food safety standards in Ghana
World Bank Group (World Bank Group) | The Agricultural Services Sub-sector Investment Project has a component to improve food safety standards in Ghana. The areas that have been earmarked by the authorities are: The maize sector ...
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Integrated development program for irrigated agriculture
World Bank Group (World Bank Group) | The thrid component of this project supports agricultural supply chains. This subcomponent that involves implementing good agricultural practices in rice production and a quality control system of fruit and vegetables ...
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Promoting long term investment in livestock in Kenya
World Bank Group (World Bank Group) | Under Phase II of the Arid Lands Resource Management Project, strategic investments will be undertaken in the establishment of disease-free zones to facilitate export and movement of animals to finishing ...
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Promoting marketing infrastructure reform in Zambia to meet standards requirements
World Bank Group (World Bank Group) | The Agricultural Development and Market Diversification Project marketing infrastructure component is helping Burkina Faso compete effectively on the fresh product export markets that require adapted and efficient logistics and post-harvest ...
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Supporting the development of the agricultural sector in Zambia
World Bank Group (World Bank Group) | The Agricultural Development Support Program would provide support to selected Ministry of Agricuture and Cooperatives (MACO) core functions. It would strengthen MACO services related to: data and policy analysis, monitoring ...
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Asia
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Avian Influenza emergency recovery project
World Bank Group (World Bank Group) | The development objectives of the project are threefold in support of the National Action Plan for the control of Avian Influenza Epedemic: (a) to strengthen disease surveillance and diagnostic capacity ...
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Developing forest management guidelines and procedures
World Bank Group (World Bank Group) | Sub-component 1.3 of the Laos Community Forestry Project will develop the Forest Management Guidelines and Procedures. The technical guidelines for planning, implementation and monitoring of the PSFM. The ...
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Diversifying farm income and promoting market development
World Bank Group (World Bank Group) | A component of the Diversified Farm Income and Market Development Project aims to reform of the quarantine and sanitary and phytosanitary service, including upgrading of training and facility infrastructure and ...
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Enhancing the seed and sapling business of Armenia
World Bank Group (World Bank Group) | Goals of this sub-component of the Rural Enterprise and Small-Scale Commerical Agriculture Development Project are to enhance the efficiency of Armenia’s smallscale seed and sapling businesses; to increase the availability ...
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Improving pastoral livelihoods in China
World Bank Group (World Bank Group) | The Gansu and Xinjiang Pastoral Development Project features a component that will: (i) improve the competitiveness of relevant Chinese pastoral and farm products: (ii) apply standard product descriptions for pastoral ...
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Improving the competitiveness of the agricultural sector in Kazakhstan
World Bank Group (World Bank Group) | The Agricultural Competitiveness Project will increase the competitiveness of the agricultural sector in Kazakhstan. To achieve this objective, the project will facilitate access to markets by supporting measures to improve ...
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Improving the seafood value chain
World Bank Group (World Bank Group) | The Sustainable Coastal Resource Development project has a component which finances a number of seafood handling operations, including processing and wholesale markets, to improve product quality and safety. Selected cold ...
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Reducing technical barriers for entrepreneurship and trade
World Bank Group (World Bank Group) | The objective of the Technical Regulation component will be to strengthen the capacity of the public sector to develop the new technical regulation framework based on the Law on the ...
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Strengthening oversight and regulatory capacity for food safety
World Bank Group (World Bank Group) | The Food and Drug Capacity Building Project features a component that will consist of activities to strengthen the government's oversight and regulatory capacity for food safety at the central and ...
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Strengthening regulatory services in India
World Bank Group (World Bank Group) | A sub component of the project will strengthen regulatory services in Uttar Pradesh, India to improve the safety and quality assurance of domestic and export products – through direct support ...
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Europe
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Agricultural Competitiveness and Food Safety Project
World Bank Group (World Bank Group) | The project objective is to increase domestic and international competitiveness of the agri-food sector. The principal project outcomes will be higher and more stable revenues for farmers and food processors, ...
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Business environment reform and institutional strengthening in Macedonia
World Bank Group (World Bank Group) | This activity aims at addressing the enterprise sector’s difficulties in competing in domestic and foreign markets related to poor national MSTQ infrastructure and services. The overall objective of this component ...
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Development of National Forest Standards in Bosnia Herzegovina
World Bank Group (World Bank Group) | Component 2 of the Forest Development and Conservation Project will facilitate the implementation of economically and environmentally-sound forest management at the level of Forest Management Units in both entities. It ...
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Ensuring safe food and SPS conditions
World Bank Group (World Bank Group) | Component 3 of the Agricultural Acquis Cohesion Project focuses on Ensuring Safe Food and Sanitary and Phytosanitary Conditions. This component would support the development of the Croatia Food Agency and ...
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Meeting international fishery standards
World Bank Group (World Bank Group) | A subcomponent of the Pilot Fishery Development project will carry out small-scale rehabilitation work and/or improvements to facilities at a number of fishing ports and fish landing sites in order ...
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Meeting international food safety standards
World Bank Group (World Bank Group) | The Small-Scale Commercial Agriculture Development assists in the development of quality specifications and food safety that would be consistent with market opportunities and the legal requirements of the EU and ...
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Modernizing agricultural knowledge and information systems \
World Bank Group (World Bank Group) | Strengthening the National Policy and Regulatory Framework, including support for the newly decreed Romanian Agency for Food Safety. Under this component, the government of Romania has recently decreed to ...
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Promoting rural development in Georgia
World Bank Group (World Bank Group) | A key component of the Georgia Rural Development Project will focus on specific, key legal and institutional reforms that impact directly on the competitiveness of Georgian agriculture and the safety ...
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Latin America/Caribbean
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Enhancing competitiveness | Trade facilitation and productivity improvements
World Bank Group (World Bank Group) | The objective of component 2(c) is to build awareness of, and a demand for, a national quality culture; facilitate the establishment of quality measurement, standards, testing, and certification services; and ...
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Promoting forestry certification in Mexico
World Bank Group (World Bank Group) | As part of its Environmental management practices, the Community Forestry Project II would support performance-based certification of production forests by independent third-party agencies (such as FSC) in communities / ejidos ...
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Strengthening SPS systems through the public and private sector
World Bank Group (World Bank Group) | The Agricultural Transition Project Development Objective is to strengthen the National Agricultural Science and Technology and Sanitary and Phytosanitary Systems by supporting the joint participation of both the public and ...
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Working through clusters to improve the coffee and dairy sectors
World Bank Group (World Bank Group) | For the coffee and dairy sector, the Competitiveness Learning and Innovation Project assists in establishing cluster information networks, on demand supported by ICT in cooperation with business associations representing the ...
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Middle East and North Africa
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Improved horticultural export marketing
World Bank Group (World Bank Group) | The development objective of the Horticultural Exports Promotion and Technology Transfer project is to improve horticultural export marketing. Component C will provide support to the Ministry of Agr to improve ...
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Strengthening institutional capacity and agricultural services in Tunisia
World Bank Group (World Bank Group) | The Agricultural Support Services Project aims to develop and improve the institutional capacity and quality of agricultural services delivered by public and private institutions and producer organizations; Component 1 will ...
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