.senior agriculture economistjob #: req32278organization: world banksector: agriculturegrade: ggterm duration: 3 years 0 monthsrecruitment type: local recruitmentlocation: mexico city, mexicorequired language(s): english, spanishclosing date: 3/26/2025 (mm/dd/yyyy) at 11:59pm utcdescriptiondo you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile?
working at the world bank group provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges.
the world bank group is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions dedicated to ending extreme poverty, increasing shared prosperity, and promoting sustainable development.
with 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, we work with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges.
for more information, visit agriculture and food team in the latin america and caribbean region (slcag) works under the direction of the latin america & caribbean (lac) planet department (slcdr), supporting client countries tackle their most complex development challenges, including in the areas of climate change, and resilient, inclusive, and sustainable development.
slcag's work program covers seven lac country management units (cmus) and is led by a practice manager (pm), and a team of agricultural economists and specialists based at hq in washington, dc and across six country offices.
the unit manages a large operational portfolio and several analytical tasks.
looking ahead, in addition to investment project financing (ipfs), there is a growing need for engagement on agriculture policy reforms through program-for-results (pforrs) and development policy financing (dpfs), as well as reimbursable advisory services (rass) and cutting-edge analytics to support the lac agri-food system's green, resilient, and inclusive transformation.
slcag works in a collaborative manner with other gps in landscape management, irrigation, fisheries, land use, nutrition, rural risk/insurance, and policies.
the focus of the team's work going forward is on the future of agri-food systems, green and resilient transitions, including inclusiveness, diversification of economies, jobs, agricultural competitiveness, and linking farmers to markets, one health, leveraging the private sector, climate-smart agriculture, digital agriculture, financial innovation, resilience, and fragility and conflict, regional and cross-gp collaboration.duties & accountabilities:the wbg is recruiting a senior agriculture economist based in mexico city, mexico