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Leveraging social protection to enhance farmers’ climate adaptive capacities
Technical brief, 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...
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Technical study, 2022
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Technical Studies, No. 18.
Structural change is a process in which the amount of labour, capital and land dedicated to agriculture (and other sectors) changes over time. In this study, we focus...
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Working paper, 2022
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 22-07.
Guyana’s agrifood systems are facing an increasing level of risk: rising sea-levels are eroding its coastal area, where much of the agricultural activity is located; recent off-shore oil...
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Policy brief, 2022
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 49.
The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a shock on agrifood systems around the world, with the potential for low- and middle-income countries to be particularly affected. As containment measures...
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Monitoring incentives in low- and middle-income countries during the first wave of COVID-19
Working paper, 2022
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 22-06.
COVID-19 has resulted in a shock to agrifood systems around the world, with the potential for low- and middle-income countries to be particularly affected. Although policy responses were...
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Policy brief, 2022
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 48.
This brief summarizes the findings of the FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper 22-04 Repurposing agriculture's public budget to align healthy diets affordability and agricultural transformation objectives in...
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Background paper for The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022. FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper 22-04
Working paper, 2022
Agricultural transformation has been ongoing for decades in Ethiopia where the agenda to improve nutrition has also gained momentum. This paper assesses ways in which the government could coherently pursue the objectives of reducing the...
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Policy brief, 2022
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 46.
This policy brief is intended to sensitize Government decision makers and development partners, youth organizations and other stakeholders about the opportunities offered by applying a value chain approach...
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Guidelines (Second edition) – Tool version 9
Manual/guide, 2022
This document presents the methodology used to build the EX-Ante Carbon Balance Tool version 9 (EX-ACT). It describes in detail the main logic behind the tool, the tool structure, and the underlying equations and parameters...
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Guidelines (Second edition)
Manual/guide, 2022
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