FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Briefs

This policy brief analyses the outcomes of targeted early actions in Mongolia during the winter of 2017 to 2018, triggered [...]

The brief uses a unique set of data from Zambia collected from smallholders before and after the 2015/2016 ENSO event, [...]

Many different policies affect rural migration through their impacts on agriculture, rural development, food insecurity and poverty. As countries at [...]

Contrary to popular belief, development is more likely to increase rather than reduce emigration from countries at lower levels of [...]

Migration from rural areas is significant, and policy-makers must seek to maximize its positive impacts on development. The movement of [...]

Kyrgyzstan experienced an extremely cold winter in 2012, with heavy snowfall followed by a significant spring run-off. This harsh winter [...]

The Karamoja region, in North East Uganda, is one of the least developed regions of the country, and is highly [...]

In sub-Saharan Africa, crop diversification features prominently in many countries’ climate change adaptation strategies. This study focuses on the determinants [...]

Against a background of limited government resources, public–private partnerships are increasingly being promoted as a mechanism for pooling financing, increasing [...]

Agriculture remains the single most important employer in many developing country, as there are about 200 million unemployed nowadays and [...]