FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Briefs
About the series (ISSN 2520-6540)
The FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Briefs series covers policy messages and recommendations from across the Agricultural Development Economics Division focusing on different themes, such as food security and nutrition global trends and governance; food security and resilience; sustainable markets, agribusinesses and rural transformations; and climate-smart agriculture
Policy brief, 2024
This policy brief outlines the African Union Commission’s (AUC) progress in tracking resilience to food insecurity, climate variability, and other shocks under the Malabo Declaration. With support from FAO and its digital Resilience Index Measurement...
Available in:English
Corporate publications, 2024
Agrifood systems are perpetually changing. Greater agricultural productivity and food trading have reduced hunger and enhanced food security and nutrition. However, agrifood systems have become increasingly fragile and unsustainable, contributing to climate change and natural...
Available in:English
Policy brief, 2023
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 69. This policy brief provides a snapshot of agricultural production, productivity and fertilizer use in the Comoros, a small island developing state, where up-to-date information on the agrifood...
Policy brief, 2023
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 68.
Agrifood systems are invaluable to society. However, they also contribute to climate change and natural resource degradation while failing to provide healthy diets to all. Many of these...
Policy brief, 2023
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 67.
Evaluation of the Action Against Desertification Programme (AAD) in Northern Nigeria. To address the lack of baseline information, a counterfactual scenario was built based on ex ante spatial...
Available in:English
Policy brief, 2023
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 66.
Livelihood diversification continues to be the norm rather than the exception globally. This means that, to be successful, livelihood support interventions need to consider households’ decisions in terms...
Available in:English
Policy brief, 2023
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 65.
In the context of fiscal reform in Costa Rica (value added tax revision), the definition of a new basic tax basket – canasta básica tributaria (CBT), incorporating nutritional...
Available in:English
Policy brief, 2023
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 64.
This policy brief summarizes the key findings and policy recommendations of the corresponding working paper Decoupling direct payments in North Macedonia – Impacts on farmer income. North Macedonia’s...
Available in:English
Policy brief, 2023
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 63.
This brief summarizes the findings of the working paper Resilience to food insecurity and gender differential decomposition in the Gambia, which aims to analyse the key drivers of household resilience...
Available in:English
Policy brief, 2023
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 62.
This policy brief highlights the main findings from the FAO Agricultural Development Economics Technical Study Identifying commodity-specific priority investments in selected districts of Uganda. The findings include a ranking...
Available in:English