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.
ESA Working Paper 06-04
Document de travail, 2006
The impact of payment for environmental services (PES) on poverty varies. Generally, PES is good for landowners and may negatively affect consumers if food demand is inelastic. Impacts also depend on the correlation between poverty...
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ESA Working Paper 06-03
Document de travail, 2006
Wheat is central to the government of Egypt’s food security policy which is based on increasing self-sufficiency in wheat on the one hand and subsidizing bread for consumers on the other hand. This paper uses...
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ESA Working Paper 06-02
Document de travail, 2006
Egypt is on track to achieve its long-term goal of reducing the poverty rate to 6 percent by 2022. Continued progress towards this goal will require rapid employment growth for which agriculture growth, through its...
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ESA Working Paper 06-01
Document de travail, 2006
Alleviating hunger and poverty has been and continues to be the pre-dominant policy challenge facing global and national decision makers. This paper argues that policy interventions for addressing this challenge should be designed in the...
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ESA Working Paper 05-11
Document de travail, 2005
Improving access to food through broad-based participation in income-generating activities in key agricultural supply chains, together with the development of safety nets that protect the welfare of Liberia’s diverse types of vulnerable individuals and households...
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ESA Working Paper 05-10
Document de travail, 2005
Food security is a complex and multi-dimensional phenomenon. As such, its measurement may entail and benefit from the combination of both “qualitative-subjective” and “quantitative-objective” indicators. Yet, the evidence on the external validity of subjective-type information...
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ESA Working Paper 05-09
Document de travail, 2005
The past four decades have seen two waves of agricultural technology development and
diffusion to developing countries. The first wave was initiated by the Green Revolution in
which an explicit strategy for technology development and diffusion targeting...
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ESA Working Paper 05-08
Document de travail, 2005
Broad changes are taking place in agrifood systems worldwide. These changes are driven by economic development, increase in per caput incomes, changing technology and urbanization. Consumers are changing their dietary preferences and shopping habits, resulting...
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ESA Working Paper 05-07
Document de travail, 2005
While traditional food security analysis offers an ex post view on who the food insecure are and why they are so, looking at food insecurity from a vulnerability perspective provides a dynamic and forward-looking way...
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ESA Working Paper 05-06
Document de travail, 2005
Liberalization of Egyptian agricultural policy and new wheat technology has led to significant increases in area allocated to wheat as well as wheat yields. The wheat self-sufficiency ratio increased from 21 percent in 1986 to...
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