PUBLICATION | 2025 Impact of conflicts on agricultural crop investment in rural areas: Policy insight from a nationally representative survey dataset Highlights: Conflicts reduce farm investment, land use, and crop output, particularly in vulnerable regions. Staple crops like yam, maize, cassava, sweet potato, and cowpea...
PUBLICATION | 2025 True cost accounting for cocoa, coffee, maize, livestock, palm oil, rice, soybeans and wheat: An overview of key commodities under the Global Environment Facility’s Food Systems, Land Use and Restoration Impact Program 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...
PUBLICATION | 2025 Revealing the hidden costs of agrifood systems in Small Island Developing States Agrifood systems are essential for providing nourishment, sustaining livelihoods and shaping cultural identities. However, they also generate significant environmental, social and health hidden...
PUBLICATION | 2025 Reducing the cost of livestock feeds in Kenya: Policy options and recommendations Kenya’s livestock sector plays a critical role in the country’s social, economic, environmental, and public health landscape. In 2023 it contributed 3.8% to the national GDP and 17.3%...
PUBLICATION | 2024 Climate change mitigation policies in agriculture: An overview of sociopolitical barriers The realization of the economic and technical potential of climate mitigation policies in agriculture is influenced by how sociopolitical issues are considered in policy development and implementation. Based on a narrative review...
PUBLICATION | 2024 Hidden costs of agrifood systems: An update to the methodology for the State of Food and Agriculture 2024 The State of Food and Agriculture 2024 report by FAO refines the global estimates of hidden agrifood system costs across 156 countries, introducing a typology of six agrifood...
PUBLICATION | 2024 Refining national true cost accounting for agrifood systems: Considerations for moving beyond The State of Food and Agriculture 2023 and 2024 The State of Food and Agriculture 2024 report prepared by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) considers the effectiveness of actions at global, national and local level to avoid...
PUBLICATION | 2024 The hidden costs of coffee production in the Eastern African value chains: Background paper for The State of Food and Agriculture 2024 There is growing recognition that significant costs associated with food systems remain unaccounted for in market prices. Coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world and the most traded...
PUBLICATION | 2024 Hidden costs of potato and rice production: Insights from a survey-based true cost accounting analysis in Bhutan, Burkina Faso and Malawi The article examines the adoption of agroecological practices among vegetable farmers in Botswana and their impact on farm performance. Although these sustainable practices have potential, their...
PUBLICATION | 2021 The global cost of reaching a world without hunger: Investment costs and policy action opportunities Highlights: This study develops a marginal abatement cost curve for hunger reduction. Twenty-two different interventions are considered for reducing undernourishment. Several low-cost investment options...
