Learning from World Bank History : Agriculture and Food-Based Approaches for Addressing Malnutrition
The purpose of this paper is to provide forward-looking recommendations for linking agriculture and nutrition by looking back over the 40 years since both nutrition and rural development began at the Bank in 1973. This paper sets out to explore whe...
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Format: | Working Paper |
Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2014
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/06/19755692/learning-world-bank-history-agriculture-food-based-approaches-addressing-malnutrition http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20029 |
Summary: | The purpose of this paper is to provide
forward-looking recommendations for linking agriculture and
nutrition by looking back over the 40 years since both
nutrition and rural development began at the Bank in 1973.
This paper sets out to explore whether what is currently
being suggested has been attempted in the past; in what
circumstances, with what sort of support or commitment, by
what actors, and with what results. Throughout, the World
Bank is a case study set within the larger development aid
architecture due to its role as one of the largest actors in
agriculture and nutrition investments in developing
countries around the nutrition initially was housed in the
Population department (1972-75), and then moved to
Agriculture and Rural Development (1975-79). Since 1979 it
has been housed with health and other human development
world. The initial motivation was to showcase the depth of
historical resources available in the World Bank Group
Archives, and to demonstrate how they can be used to inform
current practice. Several lessons learned primarily from the
World Bank experience are applicable to the Bank's
current commitment to nutrition-sensitive agriculture, as
well as to the development community at large, that is
tackling the same agenda. |
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