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A WORLD OF OPPORTUNITIES
The Investment Centre specializes in agriculture and rural development, fisheries, forestry and post-emergency recovery and rural rehabilitation.
In all its activities and interactions with collaborators, the Centre places the highest priority on improving human livelihoods and aspirations through development approaches that seek to alleviate poverty, attain global food security, lead to capacity-building and information exchange, and provide opportunities for the economic and social advancement of the rural poor.
Much of this work is concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa, where the most intractable development challenges are to be found and where the majority of people survive on agriculture. The Centre's aid to long-term agricultural development in Sub-Saharan Africa covers many technical areas within the overall goals of achieving higher levels of food security, poverty reduction and empowerment of the rural poor.
Substantial investments are needed to improve land management and soil fertility, irrigation efficiency and water harvesting, rural communications and infrastructures, and basic education, extension and health programmes.
The Investment Centre has recently provided support to TerrAfrica (an initiative with multiple partners), ALive (Partnership for Africa Livestock Development) and NEPAD (the New Partnership for Africa's Development).
The Investment Centre also plans investments to conserve natural resources and overcome hunger and poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Near East, Asia and the Pacific and assists emerging market economies in Eastern and Central Europe and Central Asia.
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Many countries need multilateral and private investment support to increase animal production and quality, assure fast delivery of perishable products, and link livestock improvement with other development efforts in an environmentally-sound manner.
Centre Discussion Paper
 "Rapid Assessment of Aid Flows for Agricultural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa"
(September 2009)
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