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Evidence from Afghanistan, Nigeria and South Sudan
Technical report, 2025
With declining resources for humanitarian and development efforts, resilience has emerged as a priority in development programming, as it offers cost-effective means to address both immediate and long-term needs. Evidence shows that resilience frameworks are...
Available in:English
Handbook on data cleaning and tool use
Manual/guide, 2025
This handbook provides a practical, step-by-step guide for conducting household-level resilience analysis under the Resilience Index Measurement and Analysis (RIMA) framework using the E-RIMA toolkit. It is structured in two main parts. The first part...
Available in:English
How an Agrifood Competitiveness and Trade (ACT) analysis can support countries in unlocking the potential of agrifood imports and exports
Communication material, 2025
The brochure presents the Agrifood Competitiveness and Trade (ACT) analysis as a tool for countries to pinpoint agrifood products with high potential for export growth or import substitution. It highlights why diversifying agrifood trade has...
Available in:English
An economic application of list experiments
Working paper, 2025
List experiments utilize indirect survey questions to reduce social desirability bias in measures of sensitive behaviours and sentiments. While often used to assess retrospective behaviour or opinions of respondents, list experiments have not been widely...
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Literature review
Technical report, 2025
Representative data collection is fundamental to social science research and evidence-based policy development, yet standard survey methodologies struggle to adequately capture hard-to-reach (HTR) populations essential to understanding social inequality and economic vulnerability. This literature review...
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Addressing land degradation across landholding scales
Corporate publications, 2025
The 2025 edition of The State of Food and Agriculture explores the theme “Addressing land degradation across landholding scales”. It examines the implications of human-induced land degradation for agricultural production, producers of all scales and...
Addressing land degradation across landholding scales
Corporate publications, 2025
The In Brief version of the FAO flagship publication "The State of Food and Agriculture 2025" contains the key messages and main points from the publication and is aimed at the media, policymakers and more...
Background paper for The State of Food and Agriculture 2025
Working paper, 2025
Understanding how much food is produced by farms of different sizes is central to shaping inclusive, sustainable and resilient agrifood systems. While smallholders are widely recognized as critical for local food security, especially in low-...
Available in:English
Background paper for The State of Food and Agriculture 2025
Working paper, 2025
Over the last decade, increasing efforts have been made to estimate the number of farms and the global distribution of farmland, providing context for the ongoing discourse on the future of farms, farm sizes, food...
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Background paper for The State of Food and Agriculture 2025
Working paper, 2025
Research on land-related agri-environmental policies and their impact on agriculture and the environment usually focuses on individual policies in specific national and regional contexts. This study fills this gap by providing a global perspective on...
Available in:English