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Background paper for The State of Food and Agriculture 2023
Working paper, 2023
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 23-12.
This background paper to The State of Food and Agriculture 2023 reviews the methods used, as well as the data required, to estimate the hidden environmental, social and health costs...
Available in:English
Background paper for The State of Food and Agriculture 2023
Working paper, 2023
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 23-11.
This background paper to The State of Food and Agriculture 2023 introduces true cost accounting (TCA) as an approach to measure and value the costs and benefits generated by agrifood...
Available in:English
Policy brief, 2023
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 68.
Agrifood systems are invaluable to society. However, they also contribute to climate change and natural resource degradation while failing to provide healthy diets to all. Many of these...
Policy brief, 2023
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 67.
Evaluation of the Action Against Desertification Programme (AAD) in Northern Nigeria. To address the lack of baseline information, a counterfactual scenario was built based on ex ante spatial...
Available in:English
The case of Action Against Desertification in Northern Nigeria
Working paper, 2023
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 23-06.
By using a multimethod strategy, we seek to generate more rigorous evidence on landscape restoration and its impacts at the household level. Using pre-restoration remote-sensing data, a machine-learning algorithm...
Available in:English
Urbanization, agrifood systems transformation and healthy diets across the rural–urban continuum
Major report, 2023
The In Brief version of the FAO flagship publication The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023, contains the key messages and main points from the publication and is aimed at the...
Urbanization, agrifood systems transformation and healthy diets across the rural–urban continuum
Major report, 2023
This report provides an update on global progress towards the targets of ending hunger (SDG Target 2.1) and all forms of malnutrition (SDG Target 2.2) and estimates on the number of people who are unable...
Policy brief, 2023
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 62.
This policy brief highlights the main findings from the FAO Agricultural Development Economics Technical Study Identifying commodity-specific priority investments in selected districts of Uganda. The findings include a ranking...
Available in:English
Technical study, 2023
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Technical Study, No. 29.
Building on the previous work by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) supporting the identification of priority agricultural sectors and possible locations with high...
Available in:English
Una herramienta para priorizar inversiones en ganadería y cultivo de café, frijol y cacao
Technical study, 2023
Economía del desarrollo agrícola de la FAO – Estudio técnico N.o 27.
El presente estudio está enmarcado en el contexto del Programa Nacional de Apoyo a las Inversiones Rurales (PIR) de Nicaragua, y sigue la metodología...
Available in: Español