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Policy brief, 2025
This policy brief reviews progress in strengthening household resilience to food insecurity in Afghanistan using the E-Resilience Index Measurement and Analysis (E-RIMA) tool. Between 2023 and 2024, two-thirds of Afghan households supported by FAO interventions...
Available in:English
Insights from The State of Food and Agriculture 2024
Technical report, 2025
Agrifood systems are essential for providing nourishment, sustaining livelihoods and shaping cultural identities. However, they also generate significant environmental, social and health hidden costs that are not reflected in market prices. These costs stem from...
Available in:English
Addressing high food price inflation for food security and nutrition
Corporate publications, 2025
While some progress and recovery have been made in recent years, the world is still above pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels and far from eradicating hunger and food insecurity by 2030 (SDG Target 2.1). Similarly, despite some...
Addressing high food price inflation for food security and nutrition
Corporate publications, 2025
The In Brief version of the FAO flagship publication The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2025, contains the key messages and main points from the publication and is aimed at the...
Technical study, 2025
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Technical Studies, No. 37.
Cocoa is one of Ecuador’s most emblematic and traditional export products. The cocoa sector is vital to the country's economy and is an essential source of livelihood for...
Available in:English
Una herramienta para priorizar inversiones en el marco de la Iniciativa Mano de la mano
Technical study, 2025
Estudio Técnico de la FAO sobre Economía del Desarrollo Agrícola n.º 36.
Desde junio de 2021, la FAO ha trabajado en conjunto con el Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería de El Salvador para identificar y priorizar territorios con alto potencial para...
Available in: Español
Proceedings
Proceedings, 2025
A national dialogue was held from 2 to 4 December 2024, in Nairobi, Kenya with active participation of government officials, national stakeholders, key partners and development agencies. The sessions were designed to discuss the Government...
Available in:English
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
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...
Available in:English
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...
Available in:English