Food Crops

A crop is a plant or animal product that can be grown and harvested extensively for profit or subsistence. Crops may refer either to the harvested parts or to the harvest in a more refined state. Most crops are cultivated in agriculture or aquaculture. A crop may include macroscopic fungus (e.g. mushrooms), or alga. Most crops are harvested as food for humans or fodder for livestock. Some crops are gathered from the wild (including intensive gathering, e.g. ginseng). Important non-food crops include horticulture, floriculture and industrial crops. Horticulture crops include plants used for other crops (e.g. fruit trees). Floriculture crops …

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World Bank Group · 7 January 2025 English

Food price inflation in Laos has surged into double digits since mid-2022, surpassing global and regional trends. High food prices impact the welfare of both consumers and agricultural producers. Holding …

crop selection and land use practices away from food crops toward cash crops—can put pressure on the food


World Bank Group · 2 January 2025 English

The Bank’s Standard Procurement Documents: shall be used for all contracts subject to international competitive procurement and those contracts as specified in the Procurement Plan tables in STEP. [...] / …

(Multi-Purpose Species includ ing Nutritious Food Crops) IDA / 64120 Integrated Rangeland Devel opment (Multi-Purpo se Species including Nutritiou s Food Crops) of 500Kg for th ree project Woredas (Itang


World Bank Group · 2 January 2025 French

Il décrit également les dispositions nécessaires à la mise en œuvre de ces mesures à travers un système de gestion qui comprend les actions de supervision du chantier, des employés …

offer a wide variety of agricultural products (food crops and cash crops). In addition to agriculture,


World Bank Group · 31 December 2024 English

of which are IPADs (Percentage) Comments on achieving targets This indicator measures the number of affected population (disaggregated by IPADs) who have benefitted from emergency disaster recovery activities under the …

increased the productivity of at least one of their food crops assisted by the project by at least 20 percent


World Bank Group · 29 December 2024 English

The project is implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of UN (FAO) with a dedicated Project Implementation Unit (PIU) based in Kabul. [...] • Describe the measures that will …

distribution of agriculture input packages to produce food crops that include wheat, maize, legumes and vegetables


World Bank Group · 23 December 2024 English

Ethiopia has seen many changes since 2016, which until now, has been the reference year fordata about the level and pattern of poverty in the country. The narrative around poverty …

3). Analysis of agriculture output for major food crops, shows that agriculture production increased


World Bank Group · 23 December 2024

ds Multi-Purpose Species incl uding Nutritious Food Crops) IDA / 64120 Integrated Rangeland Devel opment


IMF: International Monetary Fund · 23 December 2024 English

The authorities’ implementation of the home-grown Economic Recovery and Transformation (BERT 2022) plan and their ambitious climate policy agenda remain strong, supported by the IMF’s Extended Fund Facility (EFF) and …

more comprehensive information on agricultural food crops than the previous GDP statistics. The rebasing


ERF: Economic Research Forum · 21 December 2024 English

In its construction, the authors distinguished between the GPR act index and the GPR threat index, where in the first the focus is on the direct impact of geopolitical events …

Research, 13 (4), 277-98. Wallensteen, Peter. 1986. Food crops as a factor in strategic policy and action. in


Nordic Co-operation | Nordic Council & Nordic Council of Ministers · 20 December 2024

The world is currently facing a biodiversity and climate crisis which are globally interlinked. Nature-based solutions (NbS) is part of the solution to these challenges. NbS encompass different actions spanning …

Protecting wild genetic resources  Protecting food crops from pests and diseases  Managing wild species 


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