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Policy brief, 2025
Land degradation poses a significant threat to global food security, affecting approximately 1.7 billion people by limiting agricultural yields. This policy brief explores the multifaceted nature of land degradation, defined as the long-term decline in...
Available in:English
Checklist for EX-ACT implementation
Technical brief, 2025
The Environmental eXternalities ACcounting Tool (EX-ACT) checklist guides the collection of essential data for the greenhouse gas (GHG) assessments of projects. It covers project-level details, land-based activities, livestock, fisheries, wetlands, downstream energy use, and inputs...
Available in:English
Making public spending more effective with FAO's Policy Optimization Tool (PolOpT)
Communication material, 2025
Second edition.
FAO’s Policy Optimization Tool (PolOpT) empowers governments to reallocate their public budgets on food and agriculture, repurposing limited resources into powerful drivers of change to achieve more agricultural transformation, and better food security and...
Policy brief, 2025
This policy brief reviews progress in strengthening household resilience to food insecurity in Afghanistan using the E-Resilience Index Measurement and Analysis (E-RIMA) tool. Between 2023 and 2024, two-thirds of Afghan households supported by FAO interventions...
Available in:English
A discrete choice experiment
Working paper, 2025
In Bhutan, transitioning from staple cultivation to high-value crops (HVCs) is high on the government's agenda to enhance agricultural profitability and attract young farmers, especially given the aging rural population. This transition is crucial for...
Available in:English
An overview of key commodities under the Global Environment Facility’s Food Systems, Land Use and Restoration Impact Program
Technical report, 2025
Agrifood systems impose significant environmental, social, and health-related externalities that are not reflected in market prices, contributing to unsustainable development and threatening planetary boundaries. True Cost Accounting (TCA) is an emerging tool for quantifying these...
Available in:English
FAO Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) programme
Technical report, 2025
This agricultural policy monitoring review for Nigeria covers the period from 2015 to 2021, analysing public expenditure on food and agriculture, and price incentives for the key food-security commodities: maize, rice and sorghum, and the...
Available in:English
An interactive tool integrated into the FAO Agro Informatics Platform
Technical report, 2025
The City–Region Explorer is a user-friendly, web-based tool to help policymakers and planners visualize and analyze how people connect to urban centers across the globe. It uses travel-time data to define city–regions that reflect real-world...
Available in:English
Insights from The State of Food and Agriculture 2024
Technical report, 2025
Agrifood systems are essential for providing nourishment, sustaining livelihoods and shaping cultural identities. However, they also generate significant environmental, social and health hidden costs that are not reflected in market prices. These costs stem from...
Available in:English
Review of the “Coastal and marine fisheries management” module of EX-ACT
Technical report, 2025
This methodological note presents the updated approach for estimating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from fisheries using the Environmental eXternalities ACcounting Tool (EX-ACT). It reviews the limitations of previous versions of EX-ACT and outlines the improvements...
Available in:English