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This publication by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) addresses integrity risks and red flags in agriculture, natural resources, and rural development projects. It outlines the methodology and findings of proactive integrity reviews (PIRs) conducted to identify control weaknesses and integrity risks in ADB-financed projects. The publication aims to inform governments, public bodies, and stakeholders about potential vulnerabilities and effective measures to mitigate these risks. The document includes examples of deficiencies in procurement processes, bidding documents, and expenditure management, along with recommendations for improvement. This work supports ADB's strategy to strengthen governance and institutional capacity in developing member countries, promoting a sustainable, inclusive, and resilient Asia and the Pacific.

Integrity --- Agricultural development projects --- E-books

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This volume reviews recent research on effective support to improve smallholder livelihoods. After discussing the economics of smallholder farming, Part 1 reviews ways of improving access to resources such as seeds, tools and expertise for soil health improvement and integrated pest management (IPM) as well as mechanisation. Part 2 discusses ways of improving support services such as farmer organisations, public sector and commercial extension services as well as the use of digital technologies to support particular groups such as female smallholders. Part 4 discusses ways of improving smallholder access to markets, including the role of both the private and public sectors.

Agricultural development projects. --- Sustainable agriculture. --- Farms, Small.

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Common narratives about development in Africa miss the critical technological work of women. Twagira's study instead positions Malian women as rural engineers whose strategic planning and labor over the course of the twentieth century assured their food security.

Agricultural processing --- Agricultural development projects --- Women in agriculture --- Mali.

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Farmers, Indigenous organisations, government and private-sector intermediaries from remote Northern Australia often negotiate with private finance capital to gain funds for agricultural development.The concept of financialisation is used to explore the drivers and effects of agri-food restructuring in the area, while assemblage theory is applied to position local actors as potential sites of power in negotiating connections between local spaces and global finance. This book demonstrates that while financialisation is a useful signifier of patterns of global change, it is assembled by a diverse range of often contradictory work.

Agricultural development projects --- Financialization --- Australia, Northern --- Economic conditions. --- Political and Economic Anthropology, Sociology.

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This book elaborates on the transformation of agricultural development in China into the construction of a “resource and ecologically sound society”, and the coordinated development of industrialization, urbanization, and agricultural modernization in China. It focuses on the multiple goals of transforming the Chinese agricultural development model, inner motivations, approaches, and supporting systems under environmental and resource constraints. The author endeavors to build a theoretical framework for transforming agricultural development model in the construction of a “resource and ecologically sound society". To achieve this, the author addresses successively across seven chapters issues such as the multiple goals of China’s agricultural development transformation under resource and environmental constraints, the transformation of the utilization mode of resources, “resource and ecologically sound agriculture”–oriented agricultural production system transformation, the transformation of commercialized rural service system, and institutional innovations in the “resource and ecologically sound” agricultural transformation. Wensheng Chen is a Research Professor at the Hunan Academy of Social Sciences, China. He is the Dean of Hunan Rural Development Institute, Principal Scholar of the Program of New Socialist Countryside Construction Research in Hunan Province, China, and Guest Professor of East China University of Science and Technology.

Agricultural development projects --- Sustainable agriculture --- Agricultural development projects. --- Development projects, Agricultural --- Projects, Agricultural development --- Agricultural assistance --- Agriculture --- Economic development projects --- Rural development projects --- Economic aspects --- Agricultural economics. --- Asia—Politics and government. --- Asia—Economic conditions. --- Agricultural Economics. --- Asian Politics. --- Asian Economics. --- Agrarian question --- Agribusiness --- Agricultural economics --- Agricultural production economics --- Production economics, Agricultural --- Land use, Rural --- Asia --- Politics and government. --- Economic conditions. --- Economic aspects.