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A comprehensive competitiveness analysis
Technical brief, 2024
Uganda’s dairy industry, a key sector within the country’s third National Development Plan, has experienced remarkable growth in the last decade, with raw-milk production rising from 1.9 billion litres in 2014 to 2.8 billion litres...
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Policy brief, 2024
This policy brief outlines the African Union Commission’s (AUC) progress in tracking resilience to food insecurity, climate variability, and other shocks under the Malabo Declaration. With support from FAO and its digital Resilience Index Measurement...
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Value-driven transformation of agrifood systems
Corporate publications, 2024
Uncovering the true cost of food is the first step in making agrifood systems more inclusive, resilient and sustainable. As The State of Food and Agriculture 2023 revealed, agrifood systems activities generate significant benefits for...
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Value-driven transformation of agrifood systems
Corporate publications, 2024
Uncovering the true cost of food is the first step in making agrifood systems more inclusive, resilient and sustainable. As The State of Food and Agriculture 2023 revealed, agrifood systems activities generate significant benefits for...
Corporate publications, 2024
Agrifood systems are perpetually changing. Greater agricultural productivity and food trading have reduced hunger and enhanced food security and nutrition. However, agrifood systems have become increasingly fragile and unsustainable, contributing to climate change and natural...
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Background paper for The State of Food and Agriculture 2024
Corporate publications, 2024
There is growing recognition that significant costs associated with food systems remain unaccounted for in market prices. Coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world and the most traded agricultural commodity. More than...
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Background paper for The State of Food and Agriculture 2024
Technical brief, 2024
This document introduces a new agrifood systems typology developed for The State of Food and Agriculture 2024 based on the typology developed by Marshall et al. (2021). It aims to categorize countries based on multiple...
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Background paper for The State of Food and Agriculture 2024
Technical brief, 2024
Agrifood systems play a pivotal economic and social role in the five Central Asia (CA5) countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. These not only contribute significantly to the gross domestic product (GDP) of these...
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Considerations for moving beyond The State of Food and Agriculture 2023 and 2024
Technical brief, 2024
The State of Food and Agriculture 2024 report prepared by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) considers the effectiveness of actions at global, national and local level to avoid the hidden...
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An update to the methodology for the State of Food and Agriculture 2024
Technical brief, 2024
The State of Food and Agriculture 2024 report by FAO refines the global estimates of hidden agrifood system costs across 156 countries, introducing a typology of six agrifood system types rather than geographic classifications. Building...
Available in:English