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 | More than 75% of the world's poor live in rural areas. World Bank research on agriculture and rural development is multi-sectoral and focused on improving the well-being of rural people by building their productive, social, and environmental assets. | | Contact: William Martin, wmartin1@worldbank.org | | |  Research themes |  Related research | Agricultural Growth and Productivity
This research investigates the role markets, risk and policy play in determining rural livelihood strategies and the adoption of agricultural technologies and the consequences of these outcomes for productivity and rural incomes. | Impact and Adaptation to Climate ChangeÂ
This research focuses on climate-agriculture-poverty nexus and ways to assess impacts and adaptation. This project focuses on the poverty impact of changing climate volatility in Southern and Eastern Africa. |
|  Related Research | | | World Bank Research on Agriculture | (Please use the free Adobe Acrobat Reader  to view PDF files)
The following policy research working papers are drawn from the World Bank's institutional archives. Each link opens a page with an abstract of the document and several download options. Please search for earlier papers at econ.worldbank.org/docsearch. | 
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Library| WPS6206 | Distortions to agriculture and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa | Anderson, Kym; Bruckner, Markus | 2012/09 | | WPS5943 | Optimal food price stabilization in a small open developing country | Gouel, Christophe; Jean, Sebastien | 2012/01 | | WPS5928 | Reducing distortions in international commodity markets : an agenda for multilateral cooperation | Hoekman, Bernard; Martin, Will | 2012/01 | | WPS5865 | Can social safety nets alleviate seasonal deprivation ? evidence from northwest Bangladesh | Khandker, Shahidur R.; Khaleque, M. Abdul; Samad, Hussain A. | 2011/10 | | WPS5665 | Measuring the impacts of global trade reform with optimal aggregators of distortions | Laborde, David; Martin, Will; van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique | 2011/05 |
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