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  • Publication | 2025

Employment impacts of agrifood system innovations and policies: A review of the evidence

Global Food and Nutrition Security

Highlights:

  • Productivity-enhancing farm-level innovations and improvements, tend to generate positive income and employment effects, including for smallholders.
  • Mid- and downstream process innovations tend to generate even stronger positive employment and income impacts.
  • These benefits do not come automatically and require context-specific enabling conditions and supportive policies.