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Technical brief, 2025
This report analyses Ghana’s public expenditure on food and agriculture from 2016 to 2023 using the FAO Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) programme indicators. These indicators track both the level and composition...
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Background paper for The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2025
Working paper, 2025
This paper analyzes food security outcomes under food price inflation across 154 countries from 2015-2023, examining how different policy landscapes shape heterogeneous responses. Using group-based trajectory modeling, we identify distinct patterns in the co-evolution of...
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Technical brief, 2025
In 2024, FAO delivered anticipatory cash transfers to 2 400 households in Somalia, triggered by early warning information from the Somalia Water and Land Information Management (SWALIM), ahead of peak drought conditions. One of the...
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Background paper for The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2025
Working paper, 2025
This paper analyses global retail food consumer prices to uncover structural factors shaping the cost and affordability of healthy diets. Using data from 2011, 2017, and 2021, the study finds that prices vary systematically by...
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A youth and gender perspective in agrifood systems using decomposition
Working paper, 2025
The modernization of agrifood systems (AFS) is transforming labour markets and generating new employment opportunities. However, are these emerging opportunities enabling youth to take up more waged employment – often associated with higher incomes and...
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An analysis using large language models
Technical report, 2025
Since 2019, acute food insecurity has steadily increased due to climate shocks, economic disruptions, biological threats, and conflict, with fragile and crisis-affected settings most at risk. In this context, FAO has elevated resilience as a...
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Evidence from Afghanistan, Nigeria and South Sudan
Technical report, 2025
With declining resources for humanitarian and development efforts, resilience has emerged as a priority in development programming, as it offers cost-effective means to address both immediate and long-term needs. Evidence shows that resilience frameworks are...
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Handbook on data cleaning and tool use
Manual/guide, 2025
This handbook provides a practical, step-by-step guide for conducting household-level resilience analysis under the Resilience Index Measurement and Analysis (RIMA) framework using the E-RIMA toolkit. It is structured in two main parts. The first part...
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How an Agrifood Competitiveness and Trade (ACT) analysis can support countries in unlocking the potential of agrifood imports and exports
Communication material, 2025
The brochure presents the Agrifood Competitiveness and Trade (ACT) analysis as a tool for countries to pinpoint agrifood products with high potential for export growth or import substitution. It highlights why diversifying agrifood trade has...
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An economic application of list experiments
Working paper, 2025
List experiments utilize indirect survey questions to reduce social desirability bias in measures of sensitive behaviours and sentiments. While often used to assess retrospective behaviour or opinions of respondents, list experiments have not been widely...
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