15/ 2
2022
Labour calendars and rural poverty: Insights to guide rural transformation strategies
Virtual Event, 15/02/2022
In this webinar, Clarie Duquennois will present a method to construct labour calendars for rural areas and for specific crops. Using national household survey data from Malawi, she will show how total unemployment in rural areas can be decomposed between high-season unemployment and seasonal unemployment.
8/ 12
2021
Consumption-augmented asset indices: A tool to improve the targeting of the poor in rural areas
Virtual Event, 08/12/2021
The ability to precisely identify who the poor are is key to increasing the effectiveness of targeted rural poverty reduction interventions. Traditionally, the poor are identified based on their income or consumption expenditures.
2/ 12
2021
Measuring poverty at project level: An assessment of the performance of the Simple Poverty Scorecard
Virtual Event, 02/12/2021
Improving the effectiveness, efficiency and monitoring of rural poverty reduction interventions requires measuring poverty for rural areas at subnational level and for specific populations subgroups such as those engaged in primary activities.
17/ 11
2021
Identifying the vulnerable to poverty from natural disasters: A new method to increase the effectiveness of shock-responsive social protections systems
Virtual Event, 17/11/2021
Natural disasters prevent people from moving out of poverty and pull back into poverty people who were able to escape it. They are a particularly important determinant of poverty in rural areas of developing countries, where livelihoods are strongly dependent on natural resources and climatic conditions.
26/ 10
2021
Launch of the technical guide "Rural Poverty Analysis: From measuring poverty to profiling and targeting the poor in rural areas"
Virtual Event, 26/10/2021
Launch event of this new publication, where we will provide an overview of the guide, exploring possible applications indifferent areas and discussing how to integrate this into FAO’s work so that no one is left behind.
20/ 10
2021
16/ 9
2021
Launch of the technical guide “Rural Poverty Analysis: From measuring poverty to profiling and targeting the poor in rural areas
Virtual Event, 16/09/2021
Reducing rural poverty is a key objective of FAO. To achieve this goal, the Organization must reach the poor and the extremely poor in rural areas, analysing their needs and aspirations and providing effective guidance for the design of policies and investments that foster inclusive and sustainable development.
8/ 9
2021
28/ 6
2021
Evaluating the impact of poverty reduction programmes with machine learning and satellite images
Virtual Event, 28/06/2021
In this webinar, Luna Yue Huang will show how the impact of anti-poverty programmes can be measured using only satellite images and deep learning techniques. She will present evidence from a recent poverty reduction programme in rural Kenya, comparing the performance of this new method against traditional impact evaluations based on household surveys.
17/ 6
2021
Behind the scenes of a global poverty number and the challenges of rural estimates
Virtual Event, 17/06/2021
In this webinar, R. Andrés Castañeda Aguilar explains how the World Bank estimates global poverty, highlighting the main methodological challenges of using the current approach for rural areas. Finally, he will discuss potential ways to improve global rural poverty estimates, using an example from Latin America to illustrate their implications.
8/ 6
2021
Using machine learning to produce a high-resolution poverty map of sub-Saharan Africa
Virtual Event, 08/06/2021
In this webinar, the second of a series on the use of artificial intelligence for poverty analysis, Kamwoo Lee will present a new method to map poverty at the village level using machine learning and readily available geospatial data including OpenStreetMap and satellite images.
18/ 5
2021
Using Artificial Intelligence and digital data to reach the poorest during emergencies
Virtual Event, 18/05/2021
In this webinar, Professor Joshua Blumenstock will present ongoing work that uses recent advances in machine learning, applied to data from satellites and mobile phone networks, to target and deliver cash transfers to individuals and families living in extreme poverty.
20/ 4
2021
Climatic shocks, agricultural productivity, and consumption inequality in sub-Saharan Africa
Virtual Event, 20/04/2021
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20/ 4
2021
Climatic shocks, agricultural productivity, and consumption inequality in sub-Saharan Africa
Virtual Event, 20/04/2021
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14/ 4
2021
Estimating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on rural poverty
Virtual Event, 14/04/2021
Ending poverty is the first target of the SDGs and one of the three global goals of the FAO. In particular, FAO concentrates its poverty reduction efforts in rural areas, where the majority of the world poor live, and where the Organization has a competitive advantage.
11/ 3
2021
Land concentration and rural household welfare in Africa
Virtual Event, 11/03/2021
In this webinar, Jordan Chamberlin will try to address this question on the basis recent evidence from Tanzania. Through an analysis based on different rounds of nationally representative surveys, he will show how different forms of farmland structure affect the welfare of neighbouring rural smallholder households.
2/ 12
2020
Measuring poverty at the project level: An assessment of the performance of the Simple Poverty Scorecard
Virtual Event, 02/12/2020
In this webinar, Emmanuel Skoufias will discuss the Simple Poverty Scorecard method based on a recent study that assessed its performance using surveys from nine countries over a 10-year period. The webinar will tackle the advantages and disadvantages of the Simple Poverty Scorecard method.
12/ 11
2020
Advancing the spatial analysis of poverty in developing countries combining different data sources
Virtual Event, 12/11/2020
The availability of granular and timely information is key to design, target, monitor, and assess policies contributing to reaching the SDGs. Census and survey data remain fundamental but relying solely on these traditional sources of data presents clear challenges and limitations.
1/ 9
2020
A new targeting tool for social programmmes in Zambia
Virtual Event, 01/09/2020
In this meeting, Ana Paola de la O Campos (Social Protection Officer, FAO) and Yadira Díaz (Postdoctoral researcher, Los Andes University) will present a new targeting tool that was developed in the context of a targeting analysis of social assistance programmes in Zambia and, in particular, of the Food Security Pack (FSP). The analysis revealed that social assistance programmes in Zambia ar...
14/ 5
2020
Estimating the impact of COVID-19 on rural poverty
Virtual Event, 14/05/2020
Ending poverty is the first target of the SDGs and one of the three global goals of the FAO. In particular, FAO concentrates its poverty reduction efforts in rural areas, where the majority of the world poor live, and where the Organization has a competitive advantage. Poverty is also a key underlying driver of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition so reducing it is not negotiable f...