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A technical guide
Manual/guide, 2024
The purpose of this guide is to provide suggestions on designing impact evaluation of agricultural interventions. The guide provides an overview of standard impact evaluation methods and highlights more recent techniques that can help address...
Available in:English
Insights from a survey-based true cost accounting analysis in Bhutan, Burkina Faso and Malawi
Technical brief, 2024
This document summarizes the results of a pilot true cost accounting study to measure environmental and socioeconomic hidden costs associated with Irish potato and rice production in Bhutan, Burkina Faso, and Malawi. The results indicate...
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Leaving no migrants behind
Technical study, 2024
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Technical Study, No. 35.
Insufficient public financing under current fiscal constraints demands more private financing to support investment in agrifood systems. Despite the general enthusiasm for using remittances for development, initiatives face...
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Technical study, 2024
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Technical Study, No. 34.
This study was developed in order to portray, with high-quality, representative data, the main characteristics of poverty, food insecurity and vulnerability in rural areas of Guatemala. Under the...
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Background note
Technical brief, 2024
Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG 2) Zero Hunger requires a measurable improvement in the quantity and quality of official development assistance (ODA) to food security and nutrition. A central component of this work is...
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Background note
Technical brief, 2024
This background note maps and reviews 19 trackers – 16 official development assistance (ODA) trackers and three non-ODA trackers – to inform the design of a new tracker for donors to better analyse their spending...
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Background note
Technical brief, 2024
Although there are agreed definitions of food security and nutrition and a common aid database, there is no common standard for tracking official development assistance (ODA) for food security and nutrition. This creates confusion and...
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A report prepared for the G20 Task Force for the Establishment of a Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty
Technical brief, 2024
The risk that the high level in hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition will continue is particularly high today, considering the modest level of global economic growth forecast for 2024 and persisting conflicts, crisis, and climate...
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A report prepared for the G20 Task Force for the Establishment of a Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty
Technical brief, 2024
In order to prevent hunger, malnutrition and poverty from increasing in a world where periods of multiple shocks have become the new normal, building resilience to shocks is essential. The confluence of frequency, diversity and...
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An evaluation of crop yields in the Comoros
Technical brief, 2024
The Comoros, a small island developing state (SIDS) ranking among the poorest nations in Africa, is facing numerous challenges that make it particularly vulnerable to food insecurity: as a remotely located, net-food importing country with...
Available in:English