| Published October 19, 2007 |
Download Options for the World Development Report 2008. (To read these PDF files, you need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader). |
Overviews (multilingual) |
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| Complete Report, Executive Summary & Overview |
| Complete report as one file |
| Table of Contents, Foreword, Acknowledgements & Abbreviations |
| Overview |
| Part I: What can Agriculture do for Development? |
Chapter 1: Growth and Poverty Reduction in Agriculture |
| Focus A: Declining rural poverty has been a key factor in aggregate poverty reduction |
| Chapter 2: Agriculture's performance, diversity, and uncertainities |
| Focus B: Biofuels: the promise and the risks |
| Chapter 3: Rural households and their pathways out of poverty |
| Focus C: What are the links between agricultural production and food security? |
| Part II: What are effective instruments for using agriculture for development? |
| Chapter 4: Reforming trade, price, and subsidy policies |
| Chapter 5: Bringing agriculture to the market |
| Focus D: Agribusiness for development |
| Chapter 6: Supporting smallholder competitiveness through institutional innovations |
Chapter 7: Innovating through science and technology |
| Focus E: Capturing the benefits for genetically modified organisms for the poor |
| Chapter 8: Making agricultural systems more environmentally sustainable |
| Focus F: Adaptation to and mitigation of climate change in agriculture |
| Chapter 9: Moving beyond the farm |
Focus G: Education and skills for rural development |
Focus H: The two-way links between agriculture and health |
| Part III: How can agriculture-for-development agendas best be implemented? |
| Chapter 10: Emerging national agendas for agriculture |
| Chapter 11: Strengthening governance, from local to global |
| Bibliographical Note |
| Endnotes |
| References |
| Selected Indicators |
| Index |
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