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.
Background paper for The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023
Working paper, 2023
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 23-08.
This background paper to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023 discusses the dynamics and drivers of urbanization, the associated changes in agrifood systems and the...
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The case of Action Against Desertification in Northern Nigeria
Working paper, 2023
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 23-06.
By using a multimethod strategy, we seek to generate more rigorous evidence on landscape restoration and its impacts at the household level. Using pre-restoration remote-sensing data, a machine-learning algorithm...
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A global update with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa
Working paper, 2023
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 23-05.
This working paper is the update of an earlier cross-country study on household income sources using an expanded harmonized dataset. The analysis presented covers a total of 93 surveys...
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Price elasticities of major food categories to inform decision-making
Working paper, 2023
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 23-04.
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 criteria...
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Impacts on farmer income
Working paper, 2023
Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 23-03.
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...
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Working paper, 2023
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 23-02.
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...
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Case study of Benin
Working paper, 2023
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 23-01.
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...
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Background paper for The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022
Working paper, 2023
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Papers No. 22-05.
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...
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A cross-country analysis using national household survey data
Working paper, 2022
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 22-14.
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....
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What is the role of adjusting livelihood strategies?
Working paper, 2022
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 22-13.
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...
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