Advancing Research on Nutrition and Agriculture Phase II (ARENA-II) is a 3-year, multi-country project in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, being implemented from 2017 through 2020. The objective of ARENA is to close important knowledge gaps on the links between nutrition and agriculture, with a particular focus on conducting policy-relevant research at scale and crowding in more research on this issue by creating data sets and analytical tools that can benefit the broader research community.
Research under this project includes studies on the linkages between animal sources foods and stunting, on measuring and improving the affordability of healthy foods and healthy diets, understanding the links between food market quality and food choice, on farming systems and nutrition, and on the impacts of structural transformation on nutrition.
Outputs / Resources
Derek Headey
Senior Research Fellow
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Derek Headey
Senior Research Fellow 
Channing Arndt
Senior Director, Transformation Strategies, CGIAR and IFPRI
Harold Alderman
Senior Research Fellow
Will Martin
Senior Research Fellow
Liangzhi You
Senior Research Fellow
Beliyou Haile
Research Fellow
Kalle Hirvonen
Senior Research Fellow
Giordano Palloni
Nonresident Fellow
Zhe Guo
Senior GIS Coordinator
Wahid Quabili
Senior Research Analyst
Robel Alemu
PhD Student, Tufts University
Steven A. Block
Academic Dean and Professor, Tufts University
John F. Hoddinott
H.E. Babcock Professor of Food & Nutrition Economics and Policy, Cornell University
Andrew Jones
John G. Searle Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
William A. Masters
Professor, Tufts University
Digvijay Singh Negi
PhD Student, Indian Statistical Institute
David Stifel
Professor, Lafayette College
Sofia Vielma
PhD Student, Purdue University
Household dairy production, dairy intake, and anthropometric outcomes in rural Bangladesh
Separability, spillovers, and segmented markets: Evidence from dairy in India
Growth in milk consumption and reductions in child stunting: Historical evidence from cross-country panel data
Can dairy help solve the malnutrition crisis in developing countries? An economic analysis
Poverty, price and preference barriers to improving diets in sub-Saharan Africa
Economic shocks predict increases in child wasting prevalence
Understanding the production of “protective” foods in East Africa: A cross-country analysis of drivers and policy options
Healthy diets: A privilege of the rich?
Economic shocks and child wasting
Food policies and obesity in low and middle income countries
More than three billion people globally are eating too much or too little. But we can fix our faulty food system
Vegetarianism and child growth: Within-district evidence from the 2015-2016 Indian national family health survey (P10-032-19)
Research PostHeat shocks linked to lower maize yields and reduced child height: Evidence from Tanzania
Research Post1.15 Million Children, 122,472 communities, 57 countries, 30 years: New dataset combines Demographic and Health Surveys with geographic information systems
Research PostWhy 'home garden' projects don’t always work: Insights from Ethiopia
Research PostThe world needs higher-quality diets. But is better nutrition affordable for all?
Research PostThe high price of healthy food … and the low price of unhealthy food
Issue PostAnimal-sourced foods are vital to combating malnutrition and stunting in the developing world
IFPRI Policy SeminarFood Markets and Nutrition in the Developing World: Results from ARENA II
IFPRI Program/Country EventAdvancing Research on Nutrition and Agriculture (ARENA)
IFPRI Policy SeminarAdvancing Research (and Policy) on Nutrition and Agriculture
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Only rich can afford healthy diet (Daily Hunt)