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This report examines Madagascar’s public agricultural expenditure from 2013 to 2022 and incorporates recent policy changes as of mid-2024. Its findings and recommendations aim to help the government allocate...

Highlights: Price stabilization challenges include volatile international prices, speculative attacks and political interference. We describe food price stabilization programs in 7 countries...

Agrifood systems impose significant environmental, social, and health-related externalities that are not reflected in market prices, contributing to unsustainable development and threatening planetary boundaries. True...

Africa is home to a diversity of indigenous food crops that are locally adapted and less fastidious than exotic cultivars. Indigenous foods are foods of plant and animal origin...

This brief is a product of an ongoing collaboration between FAO, People and Plants International, and the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), It reviews literature...

The OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2025-2034 provides a comprehensive assessment of the ten-year prospects for agricultural commodity and fish markets at national, regional, and global levels. Rising incomes, especially...

The Agricultural Outlook is a collaborative effort of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. It brings together the commodity, policy...

Highligths: Area planted with cereals in 2024/25 is estimated to be 2.9 percent below the previous five-year average, due to below-average rainfall amounts at planting time, farmers'...

Understanding global food production and productivity patterns is crucial for policy and in-vestment decisions aimed at addressing poverty, food insecurity, and climate change. This pa-per develops comprehensive...