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Nota de política, 2022
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 57.
This policy brief highlights the main challenges of public spending on food and agriculture in selected sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries. Public spending – or expenditure – on food...
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Nota de política, 2022
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 56.
This policy brief highlights the main findings of a new methodology to identify geographical areas where, in theory, investments are likely to have big impacts in terms of...
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An application to Uganda
Documento de trabajo, 2022
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...
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Aprovechar la automatización de la agricultura para transformar los sistemas agroalimentarios
Informe principal, 2022
La automatización ha ido conformando la agricultura mundial desde comienzos del siglo XX. La mecanización motorizada ha producido importantes beneficios en lo relativo a la mejora de la productividad, la reducción del trabajo pesado y...
Aprovechar la automatización de la agricultura para transformar los sistemas agroalimentarios
Informe principal, 2022
La versión resumida de la publicación de la FAO, El estado mundial de la agricultura y la alimentación 2022, contiene los mensajes clave y los puntos principales de la publicación y está dirigida a los...
Nota de política, 2022
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 55.
Motorized mechanization is an important form of agricultural automation and has the capacity to transform agriculture and rural livelihoods. Its benefits have resulted in a substantial increase in...
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Background paper for The State of Food and Agriculture 2022
Documento de trabajo, 2022
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...
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Background paper for The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2021
Estudio técnico, 2022
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Technical Study, No. 23.
After decreasing for nearly a decade, hunger is once again on the rise. The major drivers behind this reversal – especially in low- and middle-income countries – are...
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Technical note
Estudio de casos de país, 2022
The livestock sector accounts for about 17 percent of agricultural value added and 4.3 percent of Ugandan GDP. Among the livestock subsectors, cattle is the most important one, as Uganda has 14.2 million cattle, of...
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Nota de política, 2022
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 49.
The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a shock on agrifood systems around the world, with the potential for low- and middle-income countries to be particularly affected. As containment measures...
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