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Policy brief, 2023
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 63.
This brief summarizes the findings of the working paper Resilience to food insecurity and gender differential decomposition in the Gambia, which aims to analyse the key drivers of household resilience...
Available in:English
Working paper, 2023
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 23-02.
The analysis of household resilience to food insecurity has become a key technical and evidence-based policy instrument for better tailoring development and humanitarian intervention designs. International development agencies must...
Available in:English
Technical note
Country case study, 2023
The dairy sector accounts for 6.5 percent of Uganda’s agricultural gross domestic product and is a key industry outlined in Uganda’s Third National Development Plan. Dairy export revenues reached a record high of UGX 358.6...
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Policy brief, 2022
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 59.
This policy brief introduces a working paper conducted by FAO that sheds light on the household-level relationship between poverty and food insecurity in various countries of sub-Saharan Africa...
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A cross-country analysis using national household survey data
Working paper, 2022
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 22-14.
This paper analyses national household surveys from ten countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America to shed light on the household-level relationship between monetary poverty and food insecurity....
Available in:English
Policy brief, 2022
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 58.
This policy brief highlights the main findings of a study assessing the food security and livelihoods impacts of widespread agricultural interventions, primarily aiming at increasing agricultural yields. Results...
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Guidelines
Information product, 2022
At the heart of this product is the introduction of Shiny RIMA and its advantages as a tool for the monitoring and measurement of resilience. Particularly, this guidance note focuses on today’s relevance of the...
Leveraging social protection to enhance farmers’ climate adaptive capacities
Information product, 2022
This brief explores new evidence on the relationships between social protection and farmer resilience to drought-related shocks through adopting adaptive agricultural practices. The main aim is to identify challenges and opportunities to implement integrated strategies...
Available in:English
Policy brief, 2022
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 51.
The findings in this brief have been adapted from the FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper 22-08 Enhancing refugees’ self-reliance in Uganda – The role of cash and...
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The case of rice processors in Kenya
Technical study, 2022
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Technical Study, No. 17.
This study looks at the business models of small and medium-sized rice processors in Kenya in order to better understand the policy and technical support they need to...
Available in:English