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Third edition
Manual/guidelines, 2023
The Ex-Ante Carbon-balance Tool for value chains (EX-ACT VC) is a quantitative multi-appraisal tool that evaluates the sustainability of agrifood value chains simultaneously along several environmental, economic, and social dimensions. It analyses greenhouse gas (GHG)...
Available in:English
Baseline territorial poverty profile and analysis
Information product, 2023
As part of the Hand-in-Hand Initiative, whose goal is to help reach Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 1 and 2, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) partnered with the Government of Ethiopia...
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Information product, 2023
Family farming is a diverse sector that requires the development of farm typologies to better target policies. The United Nations Decade of Family Farming (UNDFF) offers an opportunity to leverage technology and connectivity in rural...
Available in:English
Information product, 2023
An evaluation strategy for an agency mandated to transform the agricultural sector requires a comprehensive plan including the development of a theory of change to inform which indicators and mechanisms would lead to the desired...
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Policy brief, 2023
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 67.
Evaluation of the Action Against Desertification Programme (AAD) in Northern Nigeria. To address the lack of baseline information, a counterfactual scenario was built based on ex ante spatial...
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The case of Action Against Desertification in Northern Nigeria
Working paper, 2023
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 23-06.
By using a multimethod strategy, we seek to generate more rigorous evidence on landscape restoration and its impacts at the household level. Using pre-restoration remote-sensing data, a machine-learning algorithm...
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Preparing your dataset for a successful Shiny RIMA analysis
Manual/guidelines, 2023
Shiny RIMA is a web-based tool designed to simplify the estimation of resilience capacity without compromising the scientific rigour of the Resilience Index Measurement and Analysis (RIMA). This technical manual will guide the user in...
Available in:English
Urbanization, agrifood systems transformation and healthy diets across the rural–urban continuum
Major report, 2023
The In Brief version of the FAO flagship publication The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023, contains the key messages and main points from the publication and is aimed at the...
Urbanization, agrifood systems transformation and healthy diets across the rural–urban continuum
Major report, 2023
This report provides an update on global progress towards the targets of ending hunger (SDG Target 2.1) and all forms of malnutrition (SDG Target 2.2) and estimates on the number of people who are unable...
A global update with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa
Working paper, 2023
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 23-05.
This working paper is the update of an earlier cross-country study on household income sources using an expanded harmonized dataset. The analysis presented covers a total of 93 surveys...
Available in:English