Between 2007 and 2016, Dutch Official Development Assistance (ODA) expenditures for agriculture and food security tripled, amounting on average to 300 million Euros per year during this period.
2008-2013 World Development Report 2008: a gamechanger?
The 2008 World Bank’s ‘World Development Report’ was a wake-up call to refocus on agricultural and rural development as an economic sector that lays the foundation for further industrial development in most developing countries (exceptions are countries that can mobilise mineral and or oil wealth and are prepared to invest in broad-based inclusive economic development).