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Guidance to implement the framework for action for food security and nutrition in protracted crises (CFS-FFA)
Policy brief, 2016
This note focuses on the topic of social protection in protracted crises, presenting some possible approaches and its contribution to food security and nutrition, illustrated by case studies from FAO interventions in such contexts. The...
Available in:English
Guidance to implement the framework for action for food security and nutrition in protracted crises (CFS-FFA)
Policy brief, 2016
This note focuses on the topic of gender in protracted crisis situations. It advocates that FAO’s mandate to achieve food security for all by raising levels of nutrition, increasing agricultural productivity and natural resource management,...
Available in:English
Guidance to implement the framework for action for food security and nutrition in protracted crises (CFS-FFA)
Policy brief, 2016
This note focuses on the topic of access to land and land governance in protracted crises, providing some possible solutions illustrated by case studies from FAO interventions in such contexts. Protracted crisis represent a signal...
Available in:English
ESA Working Paper 16-07
Working paper, 2016
This paper aims at presenting empirical evidence from Zambia to better understand the linkages between climatic shocks, livelihood diversification and welfare outcomes with the goal of highlighting potential policy entry points to incentivize the types...
Available in:English
Climate change, agriculture and food security
Major report, 2016
The 2016 SOFA report presents evidence on today and tomorrow’s impact of climate change on agriculture and food systems. The report assesses the options to make agriculture and food systems resilient to climate change impacts...
Climate change, agriculture and food security
Major report, 2016
This booklet summarizes the main information and conclusions of the State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) 2016 report.
Unless action is taken now to make agriculture more sustainable, productive and resilient, climate change impacts will seriously compromise...
ESA Working Paper 16-06
Working paper, 2016
This document provides a full description of FAO’s partial equilibrium modelling system known as GAPS. GAPS has been developed by FAO to study the development of global food markets in the long-term and to assess...
Available in:English
ESA Working Paper 16-05
Working paper, 2016
This paper assesses past trends in agricultural land and labour productivity, as a test whether it is feasible to meet the SDG target 2.3, namely doubling productivity and incomes of smallholders within a 15-year time...
Available in:English
ESA Working Paper 16-04
Working paper, 2016
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remains the world’s most food-insecure region characterized by high levels of child mortality and poverty and low levels of human and physical capital (FAO, 2009). Countries in SSA, including Tanzania, heavily depend...
Available in:English
ESA Working Paper 16-03
Working paper, 2016
Food security in Tanzania is projected to deteriorate as a result of climate change. In spite of the Government’s efforts to promote agricultural practices that improve productivity and food security, adoption rates of such practices...
Available in:English