Planned resources

The following papers are due for publication. Contact easypol@fao.org to receive news once they are issued.

A Multiplication of green concepts in Agriculture - Building the path towards wide up-scaling
The paper attempts to outline a wide panel of "green" concepts that has been developed since the 1930's onwards. The paper starts by summarizing the evolution of sustainable development and the green economy. Furthermore, the paper demonstrates the recent switch from green agricultural farm-based approaches to sector-level and global approaches. The work also addresses, from a general and macro perspective, what is presently up coming concerning multi-stakeholder initiatives, the private sector, carbon funding and the rethinking around project appraisals
How can livestock projects contribute to CC mitigation? A demonstration through 4 EX-ACT case studies
Even if livestock GHG emissions represent an important part of the agriculture emissions, it also offer significant mitigation options, either by reducing such emissions or by sequestrating carbon in the soil and biomass. The paper provides an overview of the main mitigation options and then shows quantitatively how livestock projects can effectively contribute to CC mitigation, by presenting some projects analysed with the EX ACT tool.
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Introduction to Social Accounting Matrices: Concepts and examples
This paper, by means of a step-wise approach, illustrates how to work out accounting multipliers for policy analysis. Starting with the structure of a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) the paper explains how to separate it in endogenous and exogenous components, how to invert the matrix and how to make use of the accounting multipliers for policy impact analysis. Examples are provided at different stages of the process.
Socio-economic analysis for policy making and public resource planning: A review of best practices
The study of the socio-economic context and characteristics of a target area (or group) is complex and multifaceted, spanning over a broad range of issues and sectors. From the public sector’s point of view, its main purpose is to inform policy development and public resource planning following an analysis of the prevailing socio-economic conditions as well as the assessment, ex-ante and ex-post, on the impacts of public actions. The available methods and tools for socioeconomic analysis are immense and diverse depending on the objective or focus of such analysis. This paper aims at reviewing relevant experiences and literature in order to identify the various typologies of socio-economic analysis/ assessments in terms of the methodologies and approaches used, including quantitative and more descriptive approaches, and discussing some of their most salient features, summarising key lessons from best practices, and discussing implications these can have for policy development and public resource planning.
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The limits and opportunities of the EX-Ante carbon balance tool (EX-ACT) - A SWOT analysis
Based on the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis, the relevance of EX-ACT is investigated through its application on case studies from Madagascar, Turkey, Burkina Faso, Brazil and Tanzania. Furthermore, the paper shows, how the outputs may be used with the EX-ACT analysis. The current study outlines that a tool originally built for project developers can also be used as a pedagogic tool, which has the capacity to rapidly provide quantitative results and also trigger discussions, understand how mitigation works, stressing awareness, forecasting scenarios at different levels and within projects, programmes, value chain support and policy making.
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Nigeria: opportunities for low carbon development, Volume 1: Synthesis report
The Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) and the World Bank have agreed, as part of the Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) 2010-2013, to undertake a piece of analytical work to provide insights on the implications of climate change for Nigeria’s development agenda. This report focuses on the agenda low carbon development, and, building on the work under way on Nigeria’s Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions, evaluates opportunities to pursue, over the medium/ long term (2035) national development priorities through technologies and practices that entail low emissions of Greenhouse Gases (GHGs).
Nigeria: opportunities for low carbon development, Volume 2, part A: Agriculture and land use
Through its Vision 20:2020, the Federal Government of Nigeria has laid out ambitious targets to increase the domestic agricultural production 6-fold by 2020. Output growth would be achieved through reduction in post-harvest losses, increased yields and expansion of crop land. The overall objectives of the programme are to achieve food sovereignty and to fight poverty. The present study analyses the climate change mitigation potential of the agricultural sector within the constraint of meeting these growth targets. FAO’s Ex-Ante Carbon balance Tool (EX-ACT) was used for the analysis.
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Value Chain Analysis for Policy Making: Methodological Guidelines for a Quantitative Approach
This document is a practical guide to carry out policy impact analysis by means of a value chain approach. It provides key notions required to carry out a value chain analysis and shows how to do it in a practical way by making use of relevant tools, including the FAO VCA software, specifically designed and developed by FAO to carry out value chain analysis for policy making. The reader will find this material useful to carry out the different steps of a value chain analysis, such as: a) Identify the basic units operating in a given value chain (=agents) and the activities they undertake; b) Quantify the gross revenues, value added creation and profits of every agent; c) Build different scenarios and measure changes in revenues, value added creation and profits for the different scenarios; d) Build a Policy Analysis Matrix (PAM) and compute protection and competitiveness indicators (such as: the Nominal Protection Coefficient (NPC), the Effective Protection Coefficient (EPC), the Domestic Resource Cost (DRC) for the various segments and for a whole value chain.
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