World Development Report 2008

The World Development Report 2008 calls for greater investment in agriculture in developing countries and warns that the sector must be placed at the center of the development agenda if the goals of halving extreme poverty and hunger by 2015 are to be realized. With the theme Agriculture for Development, the report noted that while 75 percent of the world’s poor live in rural areas, a mere 4 percent of official development assistance goes to agriculture in developing countries. Visit the web site to download the full report, view the slide show and read about the Three Worlds of Agriculture.