Publications
Publications récentes
The economic lives of smallholder farmers An analysis based on household data from nine countries
Étude technique, 2015
Based on an innovative smallholder-specific dataset, this report illustrates the lives of smallholder farmers in nine developing and emerging countries, using economics to analyze data from rural household surveys. It examines different dimensions of smallholders’...
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Étude de cas par pays, 2015
This paper explores the impact of climate risk on the adoption of risk decreasing practices and other input choices and evaluates their impact on subjective and objective measures
of household welfare (namely net crop income...
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ESA Working Paper 14-10
Document de travail, 2014
The definition of family farm varies across countries and contexts. We reviewed 36 definitions and uses of the term “family farm” by academics, government and civil society organisations that describe the characteristics that make family...
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ESA Working Paper 14-02
Document de travail, 2014
The agricultural economics literature provides various estimates of the number of farms and small farms in the world. This paper is an effort to provide a more complete and up to date as well as...
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Étude de cas par pays, 2013
Since social protection and smallholder agricultural interventions often cover the same geographic
space and target the same households, there are opportunities for synergies and complementarities
that strengthen livelihoods of poor rural households.
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La croissance économique est nécessaire mais elle n'est pas suffisante pour accélérer la réduction de la faim et de la malnutrition
Publication phare, 2012
L'état de l'insécurité alimentaire dans le monde 2012 présente de nouvelles estimations de la sous-alimentation, calculées au moyen d’une méthode révisée et améliorée. D’après ces nouvelles estimations, la lutte contre la faim menée ces vingt...
Articles de presse, 2012
In this paper, we examine whether the causes and patterns of Mexican rural female migration differ significantly from rural male migration. A number of hypotheses are discussed to explain why female migration may differ from...
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ESA Working Paper 11-17
Document de travail, 2011
This paper investigates the livestock asset positions of rural households and the contribution of livestock to their income in 12 developing countries. It draws on the FAO Rural Income Generating Activities (RIGA) database, which allows...
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ESA Working Paper 11-14
Document de travail, 2011
The present paper attempts to identify the groups of households that most likely will face
positive or negative welfare consequences as a result of food price increases. Using data from household surveys and differentiating urban from...
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ESA Working Paper 11-08
Document de travail, 2011
This paper considers the impact of gender specific constraints on the production and marketing of cash crops. Cash crop production differs from general agricultural production in that it entails engaging in output markets to make...
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