FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Papers

Agriculture and livestock are key components of the livelihoods of the poor. Livestock make a substantial contribution to household livelihoods’ [...]

Adequate public research capacity is key to the appropriate development of biotechnology, including genetically modified (GM) crops. While commercial crops [...]

Using evidence from two recent data sources – the 2002 Albania Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) and the 2001 Population [...]

As shown empirically for many transition economies, even small changes in assumptions on economies of size and adult equivalence scales [...]

This report documents the main findings of the vulnerable profiling work carried out in Viet Nam, in cooperation with national [...]

This report documents the main findings of vulnerable group profiling work in Nepal. It identifies the characteristics and investigates the [...]

The full benefits of agricultural biotechnology will only be realized if consumers and food manufacturers consider it safe and beneficial. [...]

Global adoption of transgenic crops reached 67.7 million hectares in 2003 from 2.8 million in 1996. Delivery has occurred almost [...]

The pattern of crop genetic diversity has changed over the past two centuries with the modernization of agriculture, accelerating with [...]

This paper considers how the design of agricultural policies and programmes might be modified to better achieve policy objectives in [...]