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Highlights: Recent Economic Developments Global conditions improved in early 2024. The Philippines maintains its growth momentum, supported by a rebound in external demand. Robust growth...

Africa produces around 60% of the rice the continent consumes, relying heavily on rice imports to fulfill the rest of the domestic demand. Over the past 10 years, the rice-agricultural...

Indigenous Peoples (IPs) play a critical but often overlooked and misunderstood role in global development. As culturally distinct communities and stewards of a large share of the world’s natural resources...

This book "Young Changemakers: Agroecology Entrepreneurs for Rural Access" by Access Agriculture, a non-profit organisation supporting agroecology and organic farming supported by the European Commission and the FAO, details...

This scoping review examines the existing evidence on the impacts of the ongoing crisis in six countries in Asia and the Pacific region. This report provides relevant insights on the shocks faced by the region...

Many countries are promoting aquaculture as one of the prime drivers of the rural economy and the employment of women and youth. However, the industry is criticized for inadequately representing the needs of workers...

Highlights: This paper reviews the available evidence on the role of social protection programmes in facilitating climate- change adaptation and mitigation, with a specific emphasis on economic inclusion for agriculture- dependent...

The Global Report on Food Crisis (GRFC) 2024 estimated that about 281.6 million people in 59 food crisis countries and territories faced high levels of acute...

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is expected to grow modestly in 2024, returning to the low growth that prevailed in the decade before the pandemic. In addition to examining the macroeconomic outlook...

Highlights: This study focuses on the potential of off-farm production and marketing of organic and biofertilisers (OFBF) to contribute to soil health in Africa , and particularly in SSA: Egypt (Northern Africa)...