The proposed Project Development Objective (PDO) of the Bangladesh Integrated Agricultural Productivity Project is to enhance the productivity of agriculture in pilot areas.
The objective of the Punjab Irrigated Agriculture Productivity Improvement Program Project for Pakistan is to improve productivity of water use in irrigated agriculture.
Increasing agricultural productivity can have ambiguous effects on forest protection in theory: it can expand the scope of farming, which is detrimental to the forest, but it can also induce farmers to intensify their production.
Agriculture and the agro-processing sector in Brazil have shown impressive growth over the past two decades. This has largely been driven by productivity improvements and structural adjustment resulting from broad economic reforms, as well as new technologies developed by agricultural science.
As a major country contributing to, and being seriously affected by, climate change, the Government of China has strived to integrate climate smart development actions into its emerging green growth strategy.
This book provides a deep and systematic look at the opportunities for and constraints to investments in sustainable agriculture in East Africa, offering important insights into what works and how to analyse agricultural investments in one of the poorest regions of the world.