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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

ФАО: Экономика развития сельского хозяйства. Аналитическая записка № 68. Значение агропродовольственных систем для общества трудно переоценить, однако следует учитывать и их скрытое воздействие. Учет реальных издержек (УРИ) позволяет оценить скрытые издержки и выгоды от функционирования агропродовольственных...

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...

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...

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...

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...