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366852: An ecosystemic framework for analysing evidence-informed policy systems for agricultural transformation – Case study of Benin

Frejus Thoto, Alban Mas Aparisi and Christian Derlagen

366851: Resilience to food insecurity and gender differential decomposition in the Gambia

Baoubadi Atozou

366850: Decoupling direct payments in North Macedonia – Impacts on farmer income

Regine Weber, Ana Maria Díaz González and Cristian Morales Opazo

366849: Fiscal reform in Costa Rica – Price elasticities of major food categories to inform decision-making

Eléonore Dal, Rodrigo Rivera and Cristian Morales Opazo

366848: Economic transformation and diversification towards off-farm income in rural and urban areas – A global update with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa

Ana Paula De la O Campos, Yeshwas Admasu, Katia Alejandra Covarrubias, Benjamin Davis and Ana Maria Diaz

365835: The role of true cost accounting in guiding agrifood businesses and investments towards sustainability – Background paper for The State of Food and Agriculture 2023

Olivia Riemer, Tavseef Mairaj Shah and Alexander Müller

365834: Accounting for the hidden costs of agrifood systems in data-scarce contexts – Background paper for The State of Food and Agriculture 2023

Anil Markandya

365833: True cost accounting applications for agrifood systems policymakers – Background paper for The State of Food and Agriculture 2023

Reinier de Adelhart Toorop, Bart van Veen, Loes Verdonk and Bettina Schmiedler

365832: Urbanization is transforming agrifood systems across the rural–urban continuum creating challenges and opportunities to access affordable healthy diets – Background paper for The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023

Sophie De Bruin and Cindy Holleman

365831: Greening for the greater good – The case of Action Against Desertification in Northern Nigeria

Ana Paula De la O Campos, Carly Kathleen Petracco, Elsa Valli, Nicholas Sitko and D’Aietti, Laura

365830: The Agricultural technical efficiency and food security nexus – Evidence from Nigeria

Enrico Nano

365829: 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

Michael Dolislager, Cindy Holleman, Lenis Saweda Onipede Liverpool-Tasie and Thomas Reardon

365828: Variations in the subnational cost and affordability of a healthy diet for selected countries in Africa – Background paper for The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023

Cindy Holleman and Lucia Latino

365827: Resilience in conflict-affected livestock value chains – Conceptual issues and methods for analysis

Karl M. Rich

365826: Making public investments Paris Agreement-aligned in a cost-effective way – Calculating marginal abatement cost curves for agricultural investments

Joanna Ilicic, Lorenzo Maestripieri, Greta Dobrovich, Adriana Ignaciuk and Alma Rottem

365825: Agrifood value chains in low-income countries – Accounting for market structure to informpolicies

Tanguy Bernard and Eric Giraud-Héraud

365824: Targeting vulnerability hotspots along the agrifood system –A stress test for Ethiopia and Nigeria

Marco Letta, Pierluigi Montalbano, Cristian Morales Opazo and Federica Petruccelli

365823: Impact of trade policy measures on agricultural markets during global disruptions – A multicountry analysis

Jorge Soguero Escuer and Cristian Morales Opazo

365822: The hidden costs of coffee production in the Eastern African value chains – Background paper for The State of Food and Agriculture 2024

Annet Adong, Lukas Kornher, Bezawit Beyene Chichaibelu and Aslihan Arslan

365821: The opportunity cost of not repurposing public expenditure in food and agriculture in sub‑Saharan African countries – Background paper for The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024

Marco V. Sánchez, Martín Cicowiez, Valentina Pernechele and Lucia Battaglia

365820: Can’t hold me down? Farming households’ access to productive assets and inputs – A cross-country approach

Martina Improta, Ana Paula De la O Campos, Carly Petracco and Benjamin Davis

365819: Living income measurement methods – A comparative study and application to cocoa farmers in Cameroon

Katia Covarrubias, Ana Paula de la O Campos, Ajapnwa Akamin, Katharina Krumbiegel and Pascal Tillie

365818: Measuring agricultural land inequality – Conceptual and methodological issues

Carlos Esteban Cabrera Cevallos, Yeshwas Admasu, Ana Paula De la O Campos, Lorenzo De Simone, Francesco Maria Pierri and Lorenzo Moncada

365817: A standardized global approach to assess crop productivity using Earth Observations Big Data – Development of a global Crop Potential Productivity Index using Earth Observation Big Data and FAO’s Crop Ecological Requirements Database

Lorenzo De Simone, Muhammad Fahad, Ana Paula De la O Campos, Carlos Esteban Cabrera Cevallos and Vivian Ondieki

330800: An ecosystemic framework for analysing evidence-informed policy systems for agricultural transformation – Case study of Benin

Frejus Thoto, Alban Mas Aparisi and Christian Derlagen

330799: Repurposing food and agricultural policies to deliver affordable healthy diets, sustainably and inclusively: what is at stake?

Joseph Glauber and David Laborde Debucquet

330798: Food insecurity and poverty – A cross-country analysis using national household survey data

Lorenzo Moncada, Ana Paula de la O Campos and Leopoldo Tornarolli

330797: Agricultural interventions and food security in Ethiopia – What is the role of adjusting livelihood strategies?

Victor Cordonnier, Katia Covarrubias and Ana Paula de la O Campos

330796: A tool to support the spatial prioritization of commodity-specific investments – An application to Uganda

Kougblenou Christophe Adjin, Francisco Pereira Fontes and Marco Sánchez Cantillo

330795: Agricultural mechanization and sustainable agrifood system transformation in the Global South

Thomas Daum

330794: Economics of adoption for digital automated technologies in agriculture

James Lowenberg-DeBoer

330793: Automation and social impacts: winners and losers

Diane Charlton, Alexandra E. Hill and J. Edward Taylor

324702: Enhancing refugees’ self-reliance in Uganda – The role of cash and food assistance

Marina Mastrorillo, Antonio Scognamillo, Camille Ginet, Rebecca Pietrelli, d’Errico, Marco and Adriana Ignaciuk

324078: Diversification perspectives of Guyana’s agrifood sector

Regine Weber, Antonio Bubbico and Cristian Morales Opazo

324077: Realigning policy interventions on agricultural prices – Monitoring incentives in low- and middle-income countries during the first wave of COVID-19

Sarah Consoli, Juan José Egas Yerovi and Cristian Morales Opazo

324076: Repurposing agriculture's public budget to align healthy diets affordability and agricultural transformation objectives in Ethiopia. Background paper for The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022

Marco Sánchez Cantillo and Martín Cicowiez

324075: Methods and options to monitor the cost and affordability of a healthy diet globally Background paper for The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022

Anna Herforth, Aishwarya Venkat, Yan Bai, Leah Costlow, Cindy Holleman and William Masters

324074: Reducing vulnerability to weather shocks through social protection – Evidence from the implementation of Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) in Ethiopia

Antonio Scognamillo, Marina Mastrorillo and Ada Ignaciuk

324073: Can food aid relax farmers’ constraints to adopting climate-adaptive agricultural practices? Evidence from Ethiopia, Malawi and the United Republic of Tanzania

Ada Ignaciuk, Giulia Malevolti, Antonio Scognamillo and Nicholas J. Sitko

319841: Effects of land tenure rights formalization on household investments – The case of PRODEP in Nicaragua

Ana Paula de la O Campos, Fabrice Edouard and Marta Ruiz Salvago

319840: Resilient food systems – A proposed analytical strategy for empirical applications

Mark A. Constas, d’Errico, Marco, John Hoddinott and Rebecca Pietrelli

319839: Drivers and stressors of resilience to food insecurity – Evidence from 35 countries

d’Errico, Marco, Jeanne Pinay, Anh Luu and Ellestina Jumbe

319838: Harvesting trees to harvest cash crops: The role of internal migrants in forest land conversion in Uganda

Ada Ignaciuk, Jihae Kwon, Giuseppe Maggio, Marina Mastrorillo and Nicholas J. Sitko

319837: Fiscal policies to fight malnutrition – An analysis of the sugar-sweetened beverages tax in Catalonia, Spain

Eléonore Dal, Cristian Morales Opazo, Arturo Angulo and José Luis Yagüe

312207: Assessing the profitability and feasibility of climate-smart agriculture investment in Southern Malawi

Ada Ignaciuk, Giuseppe Maggio and Nicholas Sitko

312206: Public expenditure analysis for climate change adaptation and mitigation in the agricultural sector – A case study of Uganda

Joanna Ilicic, Maria Giulia Crespi, Tommaso Bertolini and Ada Ignaciuk

309808: Leveraging social protection to advance climate-smart agriculture: evidence from Malawi

Ada Ignaciuk, Antonio Scognamillo and Nicholas Sitko

309466: Refugee-host proximity and market creation in Uganda

d’Errico, Marco, Rama Dasi Mariani, Rebecca Pietrelli and Furio Rosati

309364: Adapting to high temperatures: evidence on the impacts of sustainable agricultural practices in Uganda

A. Ignaciuk, Giuseppe Maggio, M. Mastrorillo and Nicholas Sitko

309363: The challenge of making climate adaptation profitable for farmers: evidence from Sri Lanka’s rice sector

S. Bandara, S. Ignaciuk, A. Hewage, J. Kwon, T. Munaweera, Antonio Scognamillo and Nicholas Sitko