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Insights from a survey-based true cost accounting analysis in Bhutan, Burkina Faso and Malawi
Technical brief, 2024
This document summarizes the results of a pilot true cost accounting study to measure environmental and socioeconomic hidden costs associated with Irish potato and rice production in Bhutan, Burkina Faso, and Malawi. The results indicate...
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Technical study, 2024
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Technical Study, No. 34.
This study was developed in order to portray, with high-quality, representative data, the main characteristics of poverty, food insecurity and vulnerability in rural areas of Guatemala. Under the...
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Background note
Technical brief, 2024
Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG 2) Zero Hunger requires a measurable improvement in the quantity and quality of official development assistance (ODA) to food security and nutrition. A central component of this work is...
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Background note
Technical brief, 2024
This background note maps and reviews 19 trackers – 16 official development assistance (ODA) trackers and three non-ODA trackers – to inform the design of a new tracker for donors to better analyse their spending...
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Background note
Technical brief, 2024
Although there are agreed definitions of food security and nutrition and a common aid database, there is no common standard for tracking official development assistance (ODA) for food security and nutrition. This creates confusion and...
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Youth leading the way towards a sustainable future
Technical brief, 2024
This booklet introduces the bioeconomy topic and its growing relevance also for youth. Global political and economic development agendas are placing more focus on developing and growing the bioeconomy to support the transformation to sustainable...
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Financing to end hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms
Corporate publications, 2024
Six years from 2030, hunger and food insecurity trends are not yet moving in the right direction to end hunger and food insecurity (SDG Target 2.1) by 2030. The indicators of progress towards global nutrition...
Financing to end hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms
Corporate publications, 2024
The In Brief version of the FAO flagship publication The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024, contains the key messages and main points from the publication and is aimed at the...
A stress test for Ethiopia and Nigeria
Working paper, 2024
We leverage the multi-stressor nature of the COVID-19 generalized disruption as an opportunity to test the out-of-sample forecasting accuracy of both theory-based and data-driven vulnerability prediction models for the ex ante targeting of preventive interventions....
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Conceptual issues and methods for analysis
Working paper, 2024
Livestock value chains present a multitude of challenges in the analysis of resilience given their multidimensional role in livelihoods and complexities associated with their biological aspects of production. This paper discusses these challenges at length...
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