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Financing to end hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms
Major report, 2024
Six years from 2030, hunger and food insecurity trends are not yet moving in the right direction to end hunger and food insecurity (SDG Target 2.1) by 2030. The indicators of progress towards global nutrition...
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Financing to end hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms
Major report, 2024
The In Brief version of the FAO flagship publication The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024, contains the key messages and main points from the publication and is aimed at the...
A stress test for Ethiopia and Nigeria
Working paper, 2024
We leverage the multi-stressor nature of the COVID-19 generalized disruption as an opportunity to test the out-of-sample forecasting accuracy of both theory-based and data-driven vulnerability prediction models for the ex ante targeting of preventive interventions....
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Accounting for market structure to inform policies
Working paper, 2024
Recognizing that agrifood value chains (AFVCs) are essential to ensure food security and foster structural change, FAO seeks to reassess the array of policies and interventions needed to protect and strengthen AFVCs in low-income countries...
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Calculating marginal abatement cost curves for agricultural investments
Working paper, 2024
This paper proposes a novel methodology for calculating marginal abatement cost curves (MACCs) for public finance in agriculture using granular data on specific activities from investment projects. The proposed MACCs target public investment decision makers...
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Conceptual issues and methods for analysis
Working paper, 2024
Livestock value chains present a multitude of challenges in the analysis of resilience given their multidimensional role in livelihoods and complexities associated with their biological aspects of production. This paper discusses these challenges at length...
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A new price-setting mechanism
Information product, 2024
Rwanda is home to around 300 000 Irish potato smallholder farmers and is one of the top ten producers of Irish potatoes in Africa, with an estimated production of about 908 000 tonnes in 2022....
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Book/book chapter, 2024
Unleashing the potential for inclusive agricultural growth and transformation in Africa requires coordinated and strategic public and private investment in the agriculture sector. Against a background of limited government resources and expertise, public–private partnerships are...
Los casos de Ecuador, Paraguay y Nicaragua
Technical study, 2024
Economía del desarrollo agrícola de la FAO. Estudio técnico n.o 33.
La FAO y la Universidad de Chile presentan este documento técnico que consolida el trabajo realizado en el proyecto “Innovación en agronegocios en cadenas de...
Available in: Español
Information product, 2024
The living income (LI) concept continues to garner the attention of many development agencies, civil society organizations, companies and governments seeking effective strategies to improve the standard of living for smallholder farmers supplying global commodity...
Available in:English