Juergen Voegele, Ph.D., was appointed Senior Director of the World Bank's Agriculture Global Practice on July 1, 2014.
Prior to this appointment, he was the Director of the World Bank\'s Agriculture and Environmental Services Department. In this role, he provided leadership on the Bank’s activities across sustainable landscapes and oceanscapes, agriculture and environmental economic policy, and risk management and markets.
Helping countries transition to clean energy systems while meeting growing energy demand is one of the greatest development challenges of our time. Access to electricity is key to creatin...
When you land in Bujumbura, Burundi, you are immediately struck by the verdant landscape. Everything is green. The peaceful city is surrounded by beautiful Lake Tanganyika, the deepest in...
Finding solutions to provide nutritious food to nearly 10 billion people by 2050 without destroying our planet is one of the greatest leadership opportunities of our generation. The globa...
La technologie a régulièrement révolutionné l'agriculture, depuis l'invention de la charrue tirée par des bœufs dans l'Égypte ancienne jusqu'au premier tracteur à essence au début du XXe ...
La tecnología ha revolucionado la agricultura a intervalos regulares, desde la invención del arado tirado por bueyes en el antiguo Egipto, hasta el primer tractor a gasolina de principios...
Technology has revolutionized agriculture at regular intervals, from the invention of the ox-drawn plough in ancient Egypt, to the first gas-powered tractor at the beginning of the 20th c...
Les autorités malgaches et l’Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) ont annoncé en novembre dernier que l’épidémie de peste pulmonaire à Madagascar était jugulée. Pour nous comme pour be...
If the food system were a business, it would be a failing one. For the moment, however, it might be hard for its CEO to see. For she or he would be presiding over supermarkets which provi...
What do a chapati, a matza, or couscous have in common? The answer is wheat, which is a source for one-fifth of the calories and protein consumed globally.Yet, stable, assured funding for...
