FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 23-02. The analysis of household resilience to food insecurity has become a key technical and evidence-based policy instrument for better tailoring development and humanitarian intervention designs. International development agencies must...

FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 23-01. The production and use of evidence for agricultural policy is critical to prioritizing and targeting effective agricultural transformation reforms in African countries. International development organizations have supported programmes that...

FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Papers No. 22-05. The analysis presented in this report examines the impacts of repurposing food and agricultural fiscal support and border support on the cost and affordability of healthy diets and...

FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 22-14. This paper analyses national household surveys from ten countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America to shed light on the household-level relationship between monetary poverty and food insecurity....

FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 22-13. This paper assesses the food security impacts of widespread agricultural interventions, aiming at increasing agricultural yields, and explores the role played by adjustments in rural households’ livelihood strategies...

FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 22-12. In this paper, we propose a simple methodology to select a limited number of geographical areas to prioritize for commodity-specific investments in Uganda. Similar to other approaches for...

FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 22-11. This paper provides an overview of the state of agricultural mechanization across the Global South – i.e. Eastern and South-eastern Asia, Southern Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and...

FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 22-10. This working paper investigates the appropriateness of a wide range of digital solutions for agriculture, including in low- and middle-income countries, and, based on available evidence, summarizes the...

FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 22-09. Understanding the social implications of automation in agriculture, from tractors in low-income countries to high-tech artificial intelligence (AI) solutions found mostly in high-income countries, requires viewing technology change...

FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 22-08. Social protection transfers are the most widespread measures adopted to stabilize refugee households’ livelihoods and alleviate their food insecurity. This paper contributes to the literature on the effectiveness...