Working Papers

From Agricultural and Development Economics Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO - ESA)
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09-07: Did Speculation Affect World Rice Prices?

Charles Timmer

09-06: Linking Smallholders to the New Agricultural Economy: An Evaluation of the Plataformas Program in Ecuador

Romina Cavatassi, Mario González Flores, Paul Winters, Jorge Andrade-Piedra, Graham Thiele and Patricio Espinosa

09-02: Analyzing the Impact of Food Price Increases: Assumptions about Marketing Margins can be Crucial

David Dawe and Irini Maltsoglou

09-01: The Unimportance of “Low” World Grain Stocks for Recent World Price Increases

David Dawe

08-09: Rural Population Change in Developing Countries:Lessons for Policymaking

Gustavo Anríquez and Libor Stloukal

08-07: The Impact of Rising Food Prices on the Poor

Alberto Zezza, Benjamin Davis, Carlo Azzarri, Katia Covarrubias, Luca Tasciotti and Gustavo Anríquez

08-06: Patterns of Rural Development: A Cross-Country Comparison Using Microeconomic Data

Paul Winters, Timothy Essam, Benjamin Davis, Alberto Zezza, Calogero Carletto and Kostas Stamoulis

08-04: A Back of the Envelope Estimation of the Effect of Soaring Food Prices on World Hunger

Gustavo Anríquez

08-03: Have Recent Increases in International Cereal Prices Been Transmitted to Domestic Economies? The experience in seven large Asian countries

David Dawe

08-02: Agency, Education and Networks: Gender and International Migration from Albania

Guy Stecklov, Calogero Carletto, Benjamin Davis and Carlo Azzarri

08-01: Linkages between Farm and Non-Farm Sectors at the Household Level in Rural Ghana A consistent stochastic distance function approach

Gustavo Anríquez and Silvio Daidone

07-28: Understanding the Dynamics of Food Insecurity and Vulnerability in Orissa, India

Christian Romer Lovendal

07-27: Food Prices and Food Security in Trinidad and Tobago

Christian Romer Løvendal and Kristian Thor Jakobsen

07-26: Agricultural Policy Impact Analysis with Multi-Market Models: A Primer

André Croppenstedt, Lorenzo Bellù, Fabrizio Bresciani and Stefania DiGiuseppe

07-25: An Assessment of the Impact of Higher Yields for Maize, Soybean and Cassava in Indonesia: A Multi-Market Model Approach

Bambang Sayaka, Sumaryanto Sumaryanto, Masjidin Siregar, André Croppenstedt and Stefania DiGiuseppe

07-24: Rural Income Generating Activities: Whatever Happened to the Institutional Vacuum? Evidence from Ghana, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Vietnam

Alberto Zezza, Calogero Carletto, Benjamin Davis, Kostas Stamoulis and Paul Winters

07-22: Understanding the Dynamics of Food Insecurity and Vulnerability in Himachal Pradesh

Christian Romer Lovendal

07-21: Addressing Food Insecurity in Fragile States; Case Studies from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia and Sudan

Luca Alinovi, Günter Hemrich and Luca Russo

07-20: Long-Term Farming Trends. An Inquiry Using Agricultural Censuses

Gustavo Anríquez and Genny Bonomi

07-19: Long-Term Rural Demographic Trends

Gustavo Anríquez

07-18: An Assessment of the Impact of Rice Tariff Policy in Indonesia; A Multi-Market Model Approach

Bambang Sayaka, Sumaryanto Sumaryanto, André Croppenstedt and Stefania DiGiuseppe

07-17: Rural Household Access to Assets and Agrarian Institutions; A Cross Country Comparison

Alberto Zezza, Paul Winters, Benjamin Davis, Calogero Carletto, Katia Covarrubias, Esteban Quiñones, Kostas Stamoulis, Takis Karfakis, Luca Tasciotti, StefaniaStefania DiGiuseppe and Genny Bonomi

07-16: Rural Income Generating Activities; A Cross Country Comparison

Benjamin Davis, Paul Winters, Calogero Carletto, Katia Covarrubias, Esteban Quiñones, Alberto Zezza, Kostas Stamoulis, Genny Bonomi and StefaniaStefania DiGiuseppe

07-15: An Assessment of the Impact of Wheat Market Liberalization in Egypt; A Multi-Market Model Approach

Gamal M. Siam and André Croppenstedt

07-13: Impacts of International Migration and Remittances on Source Country Household Incomes in Small Island States; Fiji and Tonga

Richard P.C. Brown and Gareth Leeves

07-12: Action, Function, & Structure; Interpreting Network Effects on Behavior in Rural Malawi

Guy Stecklov and Alexander Weinreb

07-10: Does Migration Make Rural Households More Productive? Evidence from Mexico

J. Edward Taylor and Alejandro Lopez-Feldman

07-04: Seasonal Migration and Agriculture in Vietnam

Alan de Brauw

07-03: Non-Traditional Exports, Traditional Constraints; the Adoption and Diffusion of Cash Crops among Smallholders in Guatemala

Calogero Carletto, Angeli Kirk, Paul Winters and Benjamin Davis

07-02: Rural Development and Poverty Reduction; Is Agriculture Still the Key?

Gustavo Anríquez and Kostas Stamoulis

07-01: Governance and Rural Public Expenditures in Latin America. The Impact on Rural Development

Gustavo Anríquez

06-17: The Role of Crop Genetic Diversity in Coping with Agricultural Production Shocks: Insights from Eastern Ethiopia

Romina Cavatassi, Leslie Lipper and Jeffrey Hopkins

06-16: Sowing the Seeds of Social Relations: The Role of Social Capital in Crop Diversity

Paul Winters, Romina Cavatassi and Leslie Lipper

06-15: Putting Payments for Environmental Services in the Context of Economic Development

David Zilberman, Leslie Lipper and Nancy McCarthy

06-14: Assessing the Impact of Massive Out-Migration on Agriculture

Nancy McCarthy, Calogero Carletto, Benjamin Davis and Irini Maltsoglou

06-13: Abatement and Transaction Costs of Carbon-Sink Projects Involving Smallholders

Oscar Cacho and Leslie Lipper

06-12: Measuring Vulnerability to Food Insecurity

Pasquale Scaramozzino

06-11: Assessing the Impact of Food Aid on Recipient Countries: A Survey

Titus Awokuse

06-10: Food Aid in Response to Acute Food Insecurity

Christopher Barrett

06-09: Food Aid as Part of a Coherent Strategy to Advance Food Security Objectives

Christopher Barrett

06-08: Less-Favoured Areas: Looking Beyond Agriculture Towards Ecosystem Services

Leslie Lipper, Prabhu Pingali and Monika Zurek

06-07: The Experience of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America and the Caribbean

Sudhanshu Handa and Benjamin Davis

06-06: Choosing to Migrate or Migrating to Choose: Migration and Labour Choice in Albania

Carlo Azzarri, Calogero Carletto, Benjamin Davis and Alberto Zezza

06-05: Food Aid’s Intended and Unintended Consequences

Christopher Barrett

06-04: When are Payments for Environmental Services Beneficial to the Poor?

David Zilberman, Leslie Lipper and Nancy McCarthy

06-03: An Assessment of the Impact of Increasing Wheat Self-Sufficiency and Promoting Cash-Transfer Subsidies for Consumers in Egypt: A Multi-Market Model

Gamal Siam

06-02: Household Income Structure and Determinants in Rural Egypt

André Croppenstedt

06-01: Eradicating Extreme Poverty and Hunger: Towards a Coherent Policy Agenda

Prabhu Pingali, Kostas Stamoulis and Randy Stringer

05-10: Measuring Food Security Using Respondents’ Perception of Food Consumption Adequacy

Mauro Migotto, Benjamin Davis, Calogero Carletto and Kathleen Beegle

05-09: From the Green Revolution to the Gene Revolution: How will the Poor Fare?

Prabhu Pingali and Terri Raney