Documents de travail de la FAO sur l'économie du développement agricole
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 and Agriculture 2024
Publication phare, 2024
There is growing recognition that significant costs associated with food systems remain unaccounted for in market prices. Coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world and the most traded agricultural commodity. More than...
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A multicountry analysis
Document de travail, 2024
The past COVID-19 pandemic has led to severe economic consequences worldwide. The global health crisis has affected supply and demand, both domestic and international. However, the shock has been noticeably heterogeneous across sectors. Since the...
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A stress test for Ethiopia and Nigeria
Document de travail, 2024
We leverage the multi-stressor nature of the COVID-19 generalized disruption as an opportunity to test the out-of-sample forecasting accuracy of both theory-based and data-driven vulnerability prediction models for the ex ante targeting of preventive interventions....
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Accounting for market structure to inform policies
Document de travail, 2024
Recognizing that agrifood value chains (AFVCs) are essential to ensure food security and foster structural change, FAO seeks to reassess the array of policies and interventions needed to protect and strengthen AFVCs in low-income countries...
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Calculating marginal abatement cost curves for agricultural investments
Document de travail, 2024
This paper proposes a novel methodology for calculating marginal abatement cost curves (MACCs) for public finance in agriculture using granular data on specific activities from investment projects. The proposed MACCs target public investment decision makers...
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Conceptual issues and methods for analysis
Document de travail, 2024
Livestock value chains present a multitude of challenges in the analysis of resilience given their multidimensional role in livelihoods and complexities associated with their biological aspects of production. This paper discusses these challenges at length...
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Background paper for The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023
Document de travail, 2023
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 23-10.
This background paper to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023 presents an innovative analysis of within-country variability of the cost and affordability of...
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Analysis of food demand and supply across the rural–urban continuum for selected countries in Africa
Background paper for The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023
Document de travail, 2023
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 23-09.
This background paper to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023 analyses a key element of agrifood systems transformation: the change of patterns in food...
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Evidence from Nigeria
Document de travail, 2023
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 23-07.
Food insecurity is one of the world’s greatest challenges and there is still a strong debate on which structural strategies should be adopted to cope with it. In...
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Background paper for The State of Food and Agriculture 2023
Document de travail, 2023
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 23-13.
This background paper to The State of Food and Agriculture 2023 describes how true cost accounting (TCA) and the lessons learned from its application can inform efforts to develop a...
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