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To help countries improve the sustainability of agriculture, the OECD has developed recommendations on how to develop cost-effective agri-environmental policies , how to manage water issues for agriculture , how to deal with climate change challenges , and how to preserve biodiversity and manage ecosystem services related to agriculture. We have also developed insights on the potential environmental impact of agriculture policies by identifying possible policy mis-alignments and how to jointly address sustainability and productivity growth goals.
To support this work and help governments assess whether the policies they have in place are most likely to boost productivity and minimise environmental damage, the OECD developed a set of agri-environmental indicators AEIs More specifically, the AEI database can be used to:.
The AEIs are freely available to access and download — you can either query the complete database , or explore a specific theme or country below. New data spanning two decades shows that while most OECD countries increased their agricultural production, the environmental performance of the sector has seen mixed results.
Read more Access the complete database , or browse by theme:. Food insecurity can worsen diet quality and increase the risk of various forms of malnutrition, potentially leading to undernutrition as well as people being overweight and obese. The cost of healthy diets is unaffordable for more than 3 billion people in the world. The World Bank Group provides knowledge, advice, and financial resources in low- and middle-income countries to transform food systems to reduce poverty and achieve green, resilient, and inclusive development.
Improving livelihoods and creating more and better jobs , including for women and youth;. Improving food security for all, including access to safe and nutritious food;. Making agriculture and food more sustainable and more climate-smart: more productive and resilient in the face of climate change, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions;. Boosting agribusiness by building inclusive and efficient food value chains. IFC financing goes to agribusiness, food companies, and banks.
IFC also helps clients improve productivity, climate-smart practices, and food safety. Increasingly, the Bank supports country efforts to transform their food systems by taking a holistic look at public policies and spending for agriculture and food. In Armenia since , the Bank has supported , people in livestock farming and pasture management improvement. More than 90, people are expected to benefit from this program over the next five years.
In Bhutan, a Bank-supported project supports the government's efforts to reduce rural poverty and high levels of malnutrition through climate-smart agriculture. Irrigation technology and greenhouses introduced through the project have helped farmers to increase their access to local and export markets.
More than 6, people have increased the quality and quantity of produce like rice, maize, potato, vegetables, quinoa, citrus, apples, and potatoes, as well as high-value spices such as cardamom and ginger. In Bolivia, since Bank funding began in , community investments have helped fight extreme rural poverty for over , direct beneficiaries, leading to increased productive investments for more than , people, expanded or improved irrigation for nearly 74, people, and improved road access for nearly 30, people.
In Burkina Faso, from , the Bank supported the Programme National de Gestion des Terroirs which decentralized rural development and built local capacity to deliver basic services. The program also invested in water and soil conservation, agroforestry, and energy-saving stoves and other environmental technologies, helping to protect more than , hectares.
In China, since , a Bank-supported project has helped expand climate-smart agriculture. In Colombia, since , the adoption of environmentally friendly Silvopastoral Production Systems for over 4, cattle ranches has converted , hectares of degraded pastures into more productive landscapes and captured 1,, tons of CO2.
To aid the cashew industry, the Bank also supported a research program that helped disseminate genotypes of high-performing trees and establish 18 nurseries. In the Democratic Republic of Congo , between and , , people benefited from better access to agricultural services and rural infrastructure.
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