Agrifood Economics

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, 2022
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 59. 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...
Available in:English
Policy brief, 2022
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 58. 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...
Available in:English
Policy brief, 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...
Available in:English
Policy brief, 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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Policy brief, 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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Policy brief, 2022
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 54. The adoption of digital automation technologies in agriculture has been slow despite its potential to enhance the precision of agricultural operations, improve working conditions, and address environmental challenges,...
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Policy brief, 2022
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 53. Agricultural automation reshapes the labour market. In situations of rising wages and labour scarcity, agricultural automation can stimulate employment by allowing producers to expand production and by creating...
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FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 52. This brief presents prospective scenarios that provide information on where, within Paraguayan agriculture, the few public investment resources that would be allocated to the sector should be prioritized....
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FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 51. The findings in this brief have been adapted from the FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper 22-08 Enhancing refugees’ self-reliance in Uganda – The role of cash and...
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Policy brief, 2022
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief, No. 50. Guyana’s agrifood systems are facing an increasing level of risk: rising sea-levels are eroding its coastal area, where much of the agricultural activity is located; recent off-shore oil...
Available in:English
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