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FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper 19-04
Working paper, 2019
This working paper analyses the effect climate change is expected to have on agricultural productivity, caloric consumption, and vulnerability to food insecurity of household agricultural producers in Paraguay. Our results suggest that increasing temperatures and...
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FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief 15
Policy brief, 2018
This policy brief analyses the outcomes of targeted early actions in Mongolia during the winter of 2017 to 2018, triggered by warnings that extreme weather posed a major risk to vulnerable livestock herders. It evaluates...
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FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper 18-07
Working paper, 2018
This paper examines the impact of the harsh 2012 winter on livestock herding households in Kyrgyzstan and identifies policy options to increase household resilience to such shocks. While existing studies mostly focus on rainfall shocks...
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FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper 18-06
Working paper, 2018
Climate variability and extreme events continue to impose significant challenges to households, particularly to those that are less resilient. By exploring the resilience capacity of rural Ethiopian households after the drought shock occurred in 2011,...
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Migration, agriculture and rural development
Major report, 2018
Migration is an expanding global reality, one that allows millions of people to seek new opportunities. But it also involves challenges for migrants and for societies, both in areas of origin and of destination. This...
Migration, agriculture and rural development
Major report, 2018
A shorter version of the FAO flagship publication The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) 2018, the In Brief contains the key messages and main points from the publication and is aimed at the media,...
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper 18-05
Working paper, 2018
Crop diversification is an important policy objective to promote climate change adaptation, yet the drivers and impacts of crop diversification vary considerably depending on the specific combinations of crops a farmer grows. This paper examines...
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Building climate resilience for food security and nutrition
Major report, 2018
New evidence this year corroborates the rise in world hunger observed in this report last year, sending a warning that more action is needed if we aspire to end world hunger and malnutrition in all...
Building climate resilience for food security and nutrition
Major report, 2018
A shorter version of the FAO flagship publication The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) 2018, the In Brief contains the key messages and main points from the publication and is...
Information product, 2018
Resilience Marking is a participatory methodology. It employs empirical evidence to highlight the expected impact of a set of projects on the resilience of beneficiary households in a specific context. The methodology can be applied...
Available in:English