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
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief 64
Policy brief, 2023
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 ambition to join the European Union requires...
Available in:English
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief 63
Policy brief, 2023
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 to food insecurity and assess differences in...
Available in:English
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief No. 62
Policy brief, 2023
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 from one to eight of priority investment...
Available in:English
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief No. 61
Policy brief, 2023
The policy brief provides the main results and highlights of the FAO Agricultural Development Economics Technical Study La agricultura familiar en el Perú - Brechas, retos y oportunidades (available only in Spanish). The analysis applies a...
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief No. 60
Policy brief, 2023
The production and use of evidence for agricultural policy is critical to prioritizing and targeting effective agricultural transformation reforms in African countries. International development organizations, like FAO, have supported programmes that promote evidence-informed policies. This...
Available in:English
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief No. 59
Policy brief, 2022
This policy brief introduces a working paper conducted by FAO that sheds light on the household-level relationship between poverty and food insecurity in various countries of sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. The paper finds a...
Available in:English
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief No. 58
Policy brief, 2022
This policy brief highlights the main findings of a study assessing the food security and livelihoods impacts of widespread agricultural interventions, primarily aiming at increasing agricultural yields. Results show that agricultural interventions are effectively associated...
Available in:English
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief No. 57
Policy brief, 2022
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 and agriculture is widely accepted as the...
Available in:English
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief No. 56
Policy brief, 2022
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 both agricultural growth and poverty reduction. By...
Available in:English
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief No. 55
Policy brief, 2022
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 mechanization worldwide, although adoption has been uneven...
Available in:English