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Country case study, 2020
Rwanda’s agricultural sector accounts for about 29 percent of GDP and employs about 72 percent of the population that is economically active. It is still the dominant source of income for the majority of the...
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Overcoming water challenges in agriculture
Major report, 2020
Intensifying water constraints threaten food security and nutrition. Thus, urgent action is needed to make water use in agriculture more sustainable and equitable. Irrigated agriculture remains by far the largest user of freshwater, but scarcity...
Overcoming water challenges in agriculture
Major report, 2020
The In Brief version of the FAO flagship publication The State of Food and Agriculture 2020 contains the key messages and main points from the publication and is aimed at the media, policy makers and...
Policy brief, 2020
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 33.
Rainfed agriculture accounts for more than half of the world’s food production but is facing increasing precipitation variability, driven by climate change. Achieving zero hunger will require improvements...
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Policy brief, 2020
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 32.
Irrigation can facilitate adaptation to climate change, save labour and energy, and allow the growing of higher-value crops. However, to reach Zero Hunger in an increasingly water-scarce world,...
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Policy brief, 2020
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 31.
In the face of intensifying water constraints, growing demand for water and worsening inequalities in access to it, water accounting and auditing are crucial enabling factors for improved...
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Background paper for The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2019 – FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper 19-06
Working paper, 2020
Despite relatively high economic growth rates in many developing countries in the last two decades, income inequality has remained high and even increased. This has important policy implications as high-income inequality undercuts the benefits of...
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Policy brief, 2020
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 30.
North Macedonia’s ambition to join the European Union (EU) makes it necessary to reform the agricultural sector, such that it aligns with the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)....
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Technical study, 2020
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Technical Study, No. 8.
In the face of the economic downturn that Nicaragua experienced in 2018 and the need for a recovery, the study provides a comparative analysis of how investments in...
Policy brief, 2020
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 28.
This policy brief analyses some of the key agricultural public expenditure programs in Burkina Faso. It makes recommendations on levels and policy mixes that, based on the analysis,...
Available in:English