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Development of a global Crop Potential Productivity Index using Earth Observation Big Data and FAO’s Crop Ecological Requirements Database
Working paper, 2025
This working paper introduces the Crop Potential Productivity Index (CropPI), a global index that integrates Earth Observation Big Data with FAO’s Crop Requirements Database to assess the potential productivity of key staple crops (maize, wheat,...
Available in:English
Technical report, 2025
This study aims to provide an analysis of nutrition-sensitive public expenditure in the food and agriculture sector in Ethiopia, to inform and support the optimization of spending in the agrifood sector and increase the availability...
Available in:English
Domestic cereal prices during a time of rising international prices
Technical report, 2025
This study examines the evolution of domestic cereal prices in the low- and middle-income countries (LICs and MICs) from 2017 to mid-2023, covering the shocks of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine. Using...
Available in:English
Keywords: Situation analysis, Analysis
Analyse du potentiel de diversification de seize produits agricoles.
Technical report, 2025
Cette étude vise à prioriser les produits agricoles selon leur potentiel à diversifier et accroître les exportations du Burkina Faso. Deux étapes structurent l’analyse: d’abord, la priorisation de 16 produits présélectionnés à partir de six...
Available in: français
Keywords: Capacity development
Technical report, 2025
The Union of Comoros, hereafter the Comoros, is an Indian Ocean archipelago which faces significant challenges such as limited arable land, vulnerability to climate change, external economic shocks, and natural disasters, making it vulnerable to...
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Background paper for The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024
Working paper, 2025
Hunger and food insecurity reduction has stagnated in the years after the pandemic, putting the world far off course to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Target 2.1. In addition, while some progress has been...
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Conceptual and methodological issues
Working paper, 2025
Measures of agricultural land inequality have primarily relied on the distribution of farm size, using information from agricultural census data. In this paper, we use an expanded approach, recognizing the complexity and the multiple dimensions...
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A cross-country approach
Working paper, 2025
This study provides country-level estimates of productive inputs and assets utilized by farming households, including land, fertilizers, agrochemicals, water management technologies, improved seeds, and mechanization in 19 countries across the world covering the period 2014–2020,...
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A comparative study and application to cocoa farmers in Cameroon
Working paper, 2025
How should the cost of a decent life be quantified, and are living income indicators valid welfare measures for agrifood policies? This paper critically examines two methodologies for estimating living income benchmarks (LIB) and their...
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An analysis of agricultural production and yields
Technical report, 2025
The Comoros, a small island developing state (SIDS) ranking among the poorest nations in Africa, faces many challenges that make it particularly vulnerable to food insecurity: as an isolated, net food-importing country with a small...
Available in:English