A deep dive into the trends and challenges affecting agricultural development

21/12/2017

FAO recently launched the Agricultural Development Economics Technical Study series, which provides policy-oriented assessments and analyses on food security and nutrition, resilience, climate-smart agriculture, agribusiness and rural transformation.

The series explores the implications of the global trends and challenges that affect the sustainability of agricultural and food systems development, laying the groundwork for major FAO reports. For example, the second title in the series, Sowing the seeds of peace for food security, provided invaluable background material for the thematic section on conflict, food security and nutrition for the report on The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2017.

These studies are produced by FAO’s Agricultural Development Economics Division (ESA), often in partnership. The first in the series, Leveraging institutional food procurement for linking small farmers to markets, was produced in collaboration with FAO’s Nutrition and Food Systems Division and the World Food Programme (WFP).

Titles foreseen for early 2018 include new studies on agriculture and structural transformation in different development contexts, as well as background studies on the nexus between climate change, food security and nutrition for The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018.