Publications
Publications récentes
Exploring income diversification among agricultural households in developing economies
Document de travail, 2025
Smallholder farmers remain central to rural economies across developing countries, yet small landholdings and limited non-farm opportunities constrain their ability to achieve a living income. Using harmonized household survey data from 37 countries and panel...
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Background paper for The State of Food and Agriculture 2025
Document de travail, 2025
There is growing empirical evidence that land degradation (e.g. loss of soil organic carbon, soil drying, increased soil erosion) is associated with increased crop yield gaps. Here, we examine how much this happens where socio-economically...
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Note de politique, 2025
The State of Food and Agriculture 2025 presents the most comprehensive global assessment to date of who produces the world’s food. Covering 77 countries and 120 crops, the report finds that while farms larger than...
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Note de politique, 2025
Land degradation poses a significant threat to global food security, affecting approximately 1.7 billion people by limiting agricultural yields. This policy brief explores the multifaceted nature of land degradation, defined as the long-term decline in...
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Lutter contre la forte inflation des prix des produits alimentaires pour améliorer la sécurité alimentaire et la nutrition
Publication phare, 2025
Des progrès et des signes de reprise ont été observés ces dernières années, mais les niveaux restent supérieurs à ceux enregistrés avant la pandémie de covid-19, et le monde est loin d’avoir atteint l’objectif d’élimination...
« Checklist » pour l’utilisation d’EX-ACT
Produit d’information, 2025
The Environmental eXternalities ACcounting Tool (EX-ACT) checklist guides the collection of essential data for the greenhouse gas (GHG) assessments of projects. It covers project-level details, land-based activities, livestock, fisheries, wetlands, downstream energy use, and inputs...
Making public spending more effective with FAO's Policy Optimization Tool (PolOpT)
Communication material, 2025
Second edition.
FAO’s Policy Optimization Tool (PolOpT) empowers governments to reallocate their public budgets on food and agriculture, repurposing limited resources into powerful drivers of change to achieve more agricultural transformation, and better food security and...
Note de politique, 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...
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A discrete choice experiment
Document de travail, 2025
In Bhutan, transitioning from staple cultivation to high-value crops (HVCs) is high on the government's agenda to enhance agricultural profitability and attract young farmers, especially given the aging rural population. This transition is crucial for...
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An overview of key commodities under the Global Environment Facility’s Food Systems, Land Use and Restoration Impact Program
Livre/chapitre d’un livre, 2025
Agrifood systems impose significant environmental, social, and health-related externalities that are not reflected in market prices, contributing to unsustainable development and threatening planetary boundaries. True Cost Accounting (TCA) is an emerging tool for quantifying these...
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