Economía Agroalimentaria

Documentos de trabajo de la FAO sobre la economía del desarrollo agrícola

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.

Impacts on farmer income
Documento de trabajo, 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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Documento de trabajo, 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
Documento de trabajo, 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
Documento de trabajo, 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
Documento de trabajo, 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?
Documento de trabajo, 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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An application to Uganda
Documento de trabajo, 2022
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 22-12. 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...
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Background paper for The State of Food and Agriculture 2022
Documento de trabajo, 2022
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 22-11. 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...
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Background paper for The State of Food and Agriculture 2022
Documento de trabajo, 2022
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 22-10. 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...
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Background paper for The State of Food and Agriculture 2022
Documento de trabajo, 2022
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 22-09. 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...
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