Rebecca [user:field_middlename] Pietrelli

Rebecca Pietrelli

Economist
Agricultural Development Economics Division, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
Italy

I conduct food security, resilience and well-being analyses for informing FAO programming in countries as Uganda, Mauritania, Mali, Tanzania, South Sudan, West Bank and Gaza Strip; and impact evaluation analyses of UN enhancing-resilience strategies, working in close collaboration with Regional Institutions, National Bureaus of Statistics, Governments, FAO Country Offices and UN Agencies.

My contributions

  • This impact evaluation was particularly interesting in that it looked at various interventions by different agencies and also accounted for changing circumstances over time.

    Karamoja, in the northeast of the country, is highly vulnerable to food insecurity, limited resources and climate variability. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have been working together in that area for more than twenty years and recently developed a resilience strategy to improve food security and nutrition for beneficiary households.

    The planned interventions included Farmer Field Schools, school-feeding