Agriculture in Nicaragua [electronic resource] : Performance, Challenges, and Options / Norman Bentley Piccioni.
Material type: TextSeries: Other Agricultural Study | World Bank e-LibraryPublication details: Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2015Subject(s): Agribusiness | Agricultural Knowledge & Information Systems | Agricultural Productivity | Agricultural Research | Agricultural Sector Economics | Agriculture | Beans | Beef | Biodiversity | Cattle | Climate Change | Climate Change and Agriculture | Coffee | Corn | Credit | Crop Yields | Crops | Dairy Products | Deforestation | Environment and Natural Resource Management | Export Development and Competitiveness | Farming | Farmland | Food Security | Forests | Global Warming | Greenhouse Gases | Infrastructure | Innovation | International Food Policy Research Institute | Livestock | Maize | Malnutrition | Meat | Methane | Natural Resources | Oilseed Crops | Pastures | Population | Population Growth | Poultry | Rice | Rural Development | Rural Policies and Institutions | Rural Population | Rural Poverty | Seeds | Solar Energy | Soybeans | Sugar | Sugarcane | Tariffs | Trade and Integration | Trees | United Nations | Usaid | Violence | WheatOnline resources: Click here to access online Abstract: This work summarizes background papers prepared for the World Bank Group with significant input from government counterparts and other development partners. It takes stock of major recent developments and argues that a lot has been achieved in the last decade in terms of production of commodities for export and food consumption, with favorable impact on rural poverty reduction. It also argues that the two factors driving the recent agricultural performance, namely favorable international prices and expansion of the agricultural frontier, have reached their limits. So while trade policies are broadly on target, much can be done by focusing on the productivity of small family agriculture and improving competitiveness by reducing transaction costs (logistics) affecting small, medium, and large commercial farms. In the short to medium term, the household income of the rural poor will continue to depend largely on agriculture. Thus interventions will need to take into account the heterogeneity of smallholder agriculture while simultaneously increasing its resilience to climate risks through climate-smart agriculture.This work summarizes background papers prepared for the World Bank Group with significant input from government counterparts and other development partners. It takes stock of major recent developments and argues that a lot has been achieved in the last decade in terms of production of commodities for export and food consumption, with favorable impact on rural poverty reduction. It also argues that the two factors driving the recent agricultural performance, namely favorable international prices and expansion of the agricultural frontier, have reached their limits. So while trade policies are broadly on target, much can be done by focusing on the productivity of small family agriculture and improving competitiveness by reducing transaction costs (logistics) affecting small, medium, and large commercial farms. In the short to medium term, the household income of the rural poor will continue to depend largely on agriculture. Thus interventions will need to take into account the heterogeneity of smallholder agriculture while simultaneously increasing its resilience to climate risks through climate-smart agriculture.
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