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Guidelines
Manual/guidelines, 2017
This manual explains how to use the EX-Ante Carbon-balance Tool for Value Chain (EX-ACT VC) and how to address a multi-impact appraisal in terms of socio-economic and environmental performance of value chains. These guidelines justify...
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FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper 17-05
Working paper, 2017
In this paper, we evaluate the impact of this proposed change to the existing FISP design and implementation mechanisms by utilizing two waves of the Living Standards Measurement Study - Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA)survey...
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FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief 2
Policy brief, 2017
Crop diversification is often promoted as a strategy to achieve climate resilience. However, the benefits to crop diversification may vary depending on household resource endowments. For farm households with few resources, as shown by studies...
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Journal articles, 2017
Climate change is posing an increasingly severe challenge to agricultural livelihoods due to increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. Livelihood diversification can play an important role in decreasing food insecurity and vulnerability under...
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ESA Working Paper 16-07
Working paper, 2016
This paper aims at presenting empirical evidence from Zambia to better understand the linkages between climatic shocks, livelihood diversification and welfare outcomes with the goal of highlighting potential policy entry points to incentivize the types...
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Climate change, agriculture and food security
Major report, 2016
The 2016 SOFA report presents evidence on today and tomorrow’s impact of climate change on agriculture and food systems. The report assesses the options to make agriculture and food systems resilient to climate change impacts...
Climate change, agriculture and food security
Major report, 2016
This booklet summarizes the main information and conclusions of the State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) 2016 report.
Unless action is taken now to make agriculture more sustainable, productive and resilient, climate change impacts will seriously compromise...
ESA Working Paper 16-04
Working paper, 2016
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remains the world’s most food-insecure region characterized by high levels of child mortality and poverty and low levels of human and physical capital (FAO, 2009). Countries in SSA, including Tanzania, heavily depend...
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ESA Working Paper 16-03
Working paper, 2016
Food security in Tanzania is projected to deteriorate as a result of climate change. In spite of the Government’s efforts to promote agricultural practices that improve productivity and food security, adoption rates of such practices...
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ESA Working Paper 16-02
Working paper, 2016
This paper provides fresh empirical evidence on the adaptation process to face climate changes through the analysis of original cross-sectional data collected at household-level in Niger. In particular, we identify the main drivers and barriers...
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