FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Papers
About the series (ISSN 2521-1838)
The FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper series, also known as ESA Working Paper series, was created in 2001 and it collects research and policy analysis on agricultural and economic development. The aim of the series is strengthening the capacity of member countries to improve decision-making on food security and nutrition, resilience, climate-smart agriculture, sustainable markets, agribusinesses and rural transformations.
Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper 23-03
Working paper, 2023
North Macedonia’s ambition to join the European Union requires reforms of the agricultural sector and subsidy system. One major reform is the alignment to the rules of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European...
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FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper 23-02
Working paper, 2023
The analysis of household resilience to food insecurity has become a key technical and evidence-based policy instrument for better tailoring development and humanitarian intervention designs. International development agencies must strengthen the capacity of vulnerable households...
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FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper 23-01
Working paper, 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 have supported programmes that promote evidence-informed policies, however, this support...
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Background paper for The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022. FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Papers No. 22-05
Working paper, 2023
The analysis presented in this report examines the impacts of repurposing food and agricultural fiscal support and border support on the cost and affordability of healthy diets and several other key socioeconomic, nutritional and climate...
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FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 22-14
Working paper, 2022
This paper analyses national household surveys from ten countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America to shed light on the household-level relationship between monetary poverty and food insecurity. Similar to previous studies, results highlight a...
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FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 22-13
Working paper, 2022
This paper assesses the food security impacts of widespread agricultural interventions, aiming at increasing agricultural yields, and explores the role played by adjustments in rural households’ livelihood strategies in mediating those impacts. Our empirical strategy...
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FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper 22-12
Working paper, 2022
In this paper, we propose a simple methodology to select a limited number of geographical areas to prioritize for commodity-specific investments in Uganda. Similar to other approaches for prioritizing investments geographically, the basic idea behind...
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Background paper for The State of Food and Agriculture 2022. FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper 22-11
Working paper, 2022
This paper provides an overview of the state of agricultural mechanization across the Global South – i.e. Eastern and South-eastern Asia, Southern Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean – and explores the potentials...
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Background paper for The State of Food and Agriculture 2022. FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper 22-10
Working paper, 2022
This working paper investigates the appropriateness of a wide range of digital solutions for agriculture, including in low- and middle-income countries, and, based on available evidence, summarizes the expected (social, economic and environmental) impacts of...
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Background paper for The State of Food and Agriculture 2022. FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper 22-09
Working paper, 2022
Understanding the social implications of automation in agriculture, from tractors in low-income countries to high-tech artificial intelligence (AI) solutions found mostly in high-income countries, requires viewing technology change on farms within the broader context of...
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