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...

FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 23-04. In the context of fiscal reform in Costa Rica (value added tax revision), the definition of a new basic tax basket – canasta básica tributaria (CBT), incorporating nutritional criteria...

Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 23-03. North Macedonia’s ambition to join the European Union requires reforms of the agricultural sector and subsidy system. One major reform is the alignment to the rules of the Common...

FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 23-02. The analysis of household resilience to food insecurity has become a key technical and evidence-based policy instrument for better tailoring development and humanitarian intervention designs. International development agencies must...

FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 23-01. The production and use of evidence for agricultural policy is critical to prioritizing and targeting effective agricultural transformation reforms in African countries. International development organizations have supported programmes that...

FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Papers No. 22-05. The analysis presented in this report examines the impacts of repurposing food and agricultural fiscal support and border support on the cost and affordability of healthy diets and...

FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 22-14. This paper analyses national household surveys from ten countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America to shed light on the household-level relationship between monetary poverty and food insecurity....

FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 22-13. This paper assesses the food security impacts of widespread agricultural interventions, aiming at increasing agricultural yields, and explores the role played by adjustments in rural households’ livelihood strategies...

FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 22-12. In this paper, we propose a simple methodology to select a limited number of geographical areas to prioritize for commodity-specific investments in Uganda. Similar to other approaches for...

FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 22-11. This paper provides an overview of the state of agricultural mechanization across the Global South – i.e. Eastern and South-eastern Asia, Southern Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and...