This bi-monthly Newsletter serves to communicate about FAO's work on Rural Institutions, Services and Empowerment (RISE) and highlight the importance of institutions (both informal and formal) in reducing hunger and poverty in developing countries. Highlights about the work RISE carries out [...]

Evidence shows that food insecurity, poverty and geographic disparities in developing countries are strongly correlated. The proposed methodology aims to capture the spatial dimension of food insecurity, shed light on how food systems work and understand what determines food security [...]

This publication explores agricultural investment funds as a vehicle for financing agricultural businesses and projects. It looks at the capital needs of the different agricultural actors along the agricultural value chain and taking into consideration investment funds involving all kinds [...]

This bi-monthly Newsletter serves to communicate about FAO's work on Rural Institutions, Services and Empowerment (RISE) and highlight the importance of institutions (both informal and formal) in reducing hunger and poverty in developing countries. Highlights about the work RISE carries out [...]