Worldwide, the consumption of pulses has seen a slow but steady decline. One the one hand, the availability of other products has led people to abandon their traditional diets, and rising incomes have led to...

One of the main challenges to successful contract farming in a number of developing countries is the absence of strong legal systems that guarantee an adequate protection to the parties in their contractual relations. The...

Contract farming can be defined as agricultural production carried out according to an agreement between farmers and a buyer which establishes conditions for the production and marketing of a farm product. To be binding and...

Overweight and obesity are severe public health issues with rapidly increasing rates in developed as well as developing countries. According to the World Health Organization, 1.9 billion adults (over the age of 18) were overweight...

This report is part of a series of country level analysis prepared by the FAO Resilience Analysis and Policy (RAP) Team. The series aims at providing programming and policy guidance to policy makers, practitioners, UN...

Based on an innovative smallholder-specific dataset, this report illustrates the lives of smallholder farmers in nine developing and emerging countries, using economics to analyze data from rural household surveys. It examines different dimensions of smallholders’...

This study forms part of seven country case studies carried out as part of the FAO’s From Protection to Production (PtoP) programme. Zambia was selected as one of the countries given the substantial role played...

This technical note aims to measure, analyse and interpret price incentives for cashew nuts in the United Republic of Tanzania over the period 2005-2013. The results and recommendations presented in this analysis of price incentives...

This set of briefs presents the major debates emerged during the development and adoption of the India’s National Food Security Act (2013), which legally binds national and state governments to extend far-reaching social protection to...

This brief explains the FIRST programme, an outcome of the partnership between FAO and the EU. The main purpose of the FIRST programme is to strengthen the enabling environment for food and nutrition security and...