Sri Lanka, Sept. 9 -- More than 380,000 people across Sri Lanka are set to benefit from a new US$100 million partnership between the Government of Sri Lanka and the World Bank Group aimed at strengthening rural livelihoods, creating jobs, and building climate resilience in the agri-food sector.The Integrated "Rurban" (Rural and Urban) Development and Climate Resilience Project, will directly support 8,000 agri-food producers, improve irrigation and drainage services on 71,000 hectares of land, and help smallholder farmers adopt modern, climate-smart agricultural practices that increase harvests and reduce losses. It also aims to generate new jobs in rural areas-particularly for youth and women-by strengthening agribusiness value chains and ...