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Policy brief, 2021
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 38.
The agricultural sector review (ASR) provides an up to date picture of the current socio-economic situation of the agricultural sector in Lebanon, along with identifying key challenges of...
An analysis of prospective scenarios for Mexico
Technical study, 2021
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Technical Study, No. 11.
Mexico's gross domestic product (GDP) contracted unprecedentedly as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. While the primary sector has relatively been the most resilient, the agriculture sector lacks...
Trends, challenges and priorities
Book/book chapter, 2021
Monitoring and analysing food and agriculture policies and their effects is crucial to support decision makers in developing countries to shape better policies that drive agricultural and food systems transformation.
This report is a technical analysis...
Available in:English
Effects of their concentration on agricultural production and nutrition
Country case study, 2021
Con la apertura comercial que ha acompañado a la globalización, así como la evolución paralela de los mercados agroalimentarios, las grandes cadenas de supermercados han acumulado un gran poder dentro de la cadena de abastecimiento...
Available in: Español
Policy brief, 2021
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 37.
This policy brief presents a snapshot review of how key policies have affected rice in Rwanda in the run-up to the Government of Rwanda’s target to become self-sufficient...
Available in:English
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper 21-05
Working paper, 2021
This paper analyses the potential signalling effect from a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) that Catalonia introduced in May 2017, with a view to understand the ways in which, and the extent to which taxes...
Available in:English
Policy brief, 2021
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 36.
This policy brief analyses in which ways and to what extent sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) taxes trigger reduced consumption. The potential signaling effect of a SSBs tax introduced in...
Available in:English
A review based on the FAO Food and Agriculture Policy Decision Analysis (FAPDA) database
Country case study, 2021
There have been numerous economic difficulties felt by several countries in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) in recent years, generating difficult and region-specific challenges for the food and agriculture systems of the region....
Available in:English
An FAO evaluation of the Agency’s impact on agricultural growth and poverty reduction
Country case study, 2020
Through a rigorous, multi-stage analysis, the evidence generated by this corporate evaluation demonstrates the effectiveness of Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA)’s business plan for achieving measurable changes in Ethiopia’s agricultural sector, both at micro and...
Available in:English
Brief
Country case study, 2020
This brief summarize the findings of the report "Ten years of the Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency – An FAO evaluation of the Agency’s impact on agricultural growth and poverty reduction".
This evaluation finds that ATA has...
Available in:English