Excerpt from International Organization and Agricultural Development The ibrd and the ide have put major emphasis on projects to improve water supplies and purchase needed production inputs, particularly machinery. In more recent years these two banks have emphasized livestock as well as crops. In the past 3 to 4 years, ibrd and ide have supported international agricultural research institutions and ibrd has begun a program of socioeconomic research concerning such problems as rural employment and development, protein shortages, and population pressures. Fao has placed its emphasis on training and technical assistance at country levels and now seeks to help with investment studies in farming and agribusiness. Fao has been concerned in recent years about trade problems of developing countries, and the interface between trade policies and development. The international banks and technical assistance agencies, including fao and the Organization of American States (oas), have also put increased efforts into country programming and sector analysis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Other topics include market failures, food insecurity, rural poverty, environmental degradation, income and asset inequality, fiscally sustainable organizations, the changing roles of the public and private sector in research, input delivery systems, marketing and low rates of agricultural growth in much of sub-Saharan Africa.