Agrifood Economics

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Latest publications

Working paper, 2022
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 22-07. Guyana’s agrifood systems are facing an increasing level of risk: rising sea-levels are eroding its coastal area, where much of the agricultural activity is located; recent off-shore oil...
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Policy brief, 2022
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 49. The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a shock on agrifood systems around the world, with the potential for low- and middle-income countries to be particularly affected. As containment measures...
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Monitoring incentives in low- and middle-income countries during the first wave of COVID-19
Working paper, 2022
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 22-06. COVID-19 has resulted in a shock to agrifood systems around the world, with the potential for low- and middle-income countries to be particularly affected. Although policy responses were...
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Policy brief, 2022
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 48. This brief summarizes the findings of the FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper 22-04 Repurposing agriculture's public budget to align healthy diets affordability and agricultural transformation objectives in...
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Background paper for The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022. FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper 22-04
Working paper, 2022
Agricultural transformation has been ongoing for decades in Ethiopia where the agenda to improve nutrition has also gained momentum. This paper assesses ways in which the government could coherently pursue the objectives of reducing the...
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Background paper for The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022. FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper 22-03
Working paper, 2022
FAO is focusing its attention on the pursuit of healthy diets and transformations of agrifood systems to ensure healthy diets are affordable for all. Measuring and systematically monitoring the cost and affordability of healthy diets...
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Policy brief, 2022
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 47. The findings of this brief have been adapted from the FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper 22-02 Reducing vulnerability to weather shocks through social protection – Evidence from the...
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FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper 22–02
Working paper, 2022
This paper uncovers the mechanisms shaping the impact of the public work component of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) on beneficiaries and communities’ food security and vulnerability to various shocks. From a policy perspective,...
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Repurposing food and agricultural policies to make healthy diets more affordable
Major report, 2022
This year’s report should dispel any lingering doubts that the world is moving backwards in its efforts to end hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms. We are now only eight years away...
Repurposing food and agricultural policies to make healthy diets more affordable
Major report, 2022
The In Brief version of the FAO flagship publication, The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022, contains the key messages and main points from the publication and is aimed at the...