FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Briefs

By 2050, two-thirds of the world’s population will live in urban areas. Should we thus be more concerned with urban [...]

As urban food markets have grown rapidly in recent decades, so too have rural–urban food supply chains. Urbanization and higher [...]

Achieving the SDGs to end hunger and extreme poverty by 2030 will depend crucially on developing rural areas in the [...]

Crop diversification is often promoted as a strategy to achieve climate resilience. However, the benefits to crop diversification may vary [...]

The brief contains recommendations and a framework for developing an Institutional Food Procurement Programme (IFPP) based on lessons from ten [...]

This policy brief addresses the question of the economic drivers of both deforestation and forest degradation (DD) in Zambia. It [...]

This brief summarizes the results of analyses of Shan tea and Arabica coffee value chains in the Northern Mountainous Region [...]

In recent years, government's investments in agriculture have focused on increasing land under irrigation, subsidizing inputs, strengthening the agricultural extension [...]

In Senegal, the government has given great importance and priority to the development and promotion of national rice production to [...]

The government of Burundi has timidly decreased State involvement in strategic value chains, with a view to open the market, [...]