Agriculture Investment Sourcebook: Agriculture and Rural Development.HD1417 2005-043249 0-8213-6085-X Agriculture investment sourcebook; agriculture and rural development. Title main entry. The World Bank, [c]2005 508 p. $60.00 (pa) Prepared to support the World Bank's current rural strategy, Reaching the Rural Poor, this sourcebook provides generic information on "good practice" in agricultural investment as well as example cases. The material is organized into modules dealing with investments in: science and technology; agricultural extension Agricultural extension was once known as the application of scientific research and new knowledge to agricultural practices through farmer education. The field of extension now encompasses a wider range of communication and learning activities organised for rural people by and information systems; sustainable agricultural intensification in·ten·si·fy v. in·ten·si·fied, in·ten·si·fy·ing, in·ten·si·fies v.tr. 1. To make intense or more intense: ; natural resource management for agriculture; agribusiness agribusiness Agriculture operated by business; specifically, that part of a modern national economy devoted to the production, processing, and distribution of food and fibre products and byproducts. and market development; rural finance for agriculture; irrigation irrigation, in agriculture, artificial watering of the land. Although used chiefly in regions with annual rainfall of less than 20 in. (51 cm), it is also used in wetter areas to grow certain crops, e.g., rice. and drainage drainage, in agriculture drainage, in agriculture, the removal of excess water from the soil, either by a system of surface ditches, or by underground conduits if required by soil conditions and land contour. ; land administration, policy, and markets. Concluding modules present information on managing agricultural risk, vulnerability, and disaster and address the issue of scaling up agricultural investments in the Bank's changing internal environment. |
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