FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Papers
About the series (ISSN 2521-1838)
The FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper series, also known as ESA Working Paper series, was created in 2001 and it collects research and policy analysis on agricultural and economic development. The aim of the series is strengthening the capacity of member countries to improve decision-making on food security and nutrition, resilience, climate-smart agriculture, sustainable markets, agribusinesses and rural transformations.
ESA Working Paper 03-06
Working paper, 2003
This paper provides an assessment of the potential for smallholder agroforestry projects to be competitive in markets for carbon emission reduction credits, and explores the ways in which smallholder participation in such markets may be...
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ESA Working Paper 03-05
Working paper, 2003
This study investigates the relationship between nutrition intake and economic growth as an attempt to provide useful insights for FAO’s Anti-Hunger Programme. It addresses the question of how much economic growth is lost by a...
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ESA Working Paper 03-04
Working paper, 2003
Despite falling per capita incomes in these countries, globalization has probably not led to a deterioration of food security in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Measures of food inadequacy in these countries are significantly lower than...
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Discerning transient from chronic poverty in Nicaragua: measurement with a two period panel data set
ESA Working Paper 03-03
Working paper, 2003
This paper deals with consumption dynamics and its effects on poverty. An econometric model is proposed in which changes in consumption across time are seen as fluctuations around the level of consumption that each family...
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ESA Working Paper 03-02
Working paper, 2003
The present study analyzes the nature of Ukrainian farm debt by investigating whether the debt servicing problem of Ukrainian farms is more of a debt problem or a net income problem. Net income generation appears...
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ESA Working Paper 03-01
Working paper, 2003
Three institutional pillars form the foundations of sustainable financial markets: The existence of a pool of profitable and diverse rural clients with the ability to service loans, well-run financial institutions which are financially self supporting...
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ESA Working Paper 02-15
Working paper, 2002
This paper argues for a twin-track approach to hunger and poverty reduction that combines measures to promote rural development through growth in agriculture and rural off-farm activities with measures to provide direct and immediate access...
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ESA Working Paper 02-14
Working paper, 2002
This paper contains the main results of a FAO study on staple food prices and real wages in Afghanistan during the period 1996-2002, based on information systematically collected weekly by WFP in all major cities...
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ESA Working Paper 02-13
Working paper, 2002
This article explores the role of migrant networks in Mexican rural out-migration focusing on how network composition influences rural-to-rural, rural-to-urban, and rural-to-international migration. Using data from rural Mexico, migration is considered in a multiple-choice context...
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ESA Working Paper 02-12
Working paper, 2002
While Nicaragua over the past decade has ranked among the poorest countries in Latin America in terms of per capita GDP, data from the last three LSMS surveys (1993, 1998, and 2001) has shown a...
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