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Transforming food systems is essential to bring about a healthier, equitable, sustainable, and resilient future, including achieving global development and sustainability goals.
Political and economic drivers of Sudan's armed conflict: Implications for the agri-food system
This study assesses the political economy of the conflict between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that brought out in April 2023, resulting in massive violence, displacement, and threats to food security.
There is a need to address gender inequalities in agri-food systems (AFS) governance to close the gender gap and improve women’s agency and participation in the agri-food sector.
Do electoral considerations play a role in the targeting of humanitarian transfers?
Honduras: The impact of COVID-19 and other shocks, and policy implications: Final report
Two previous reports (Díaz Bonilla, Laborde and Piñeiro, 2021, and Diaz-Bonilla, Flores, Paz, Piñeiro, and Zandstra, 2021) covered the evolution and impacts of the pandemic on food systems in Honduras until the time of their writings (which togeth
Papua New Guinea continues to encourage a policy focus on food and nutrition security.
Myanmar experienced four distinct COVID shocks to its economy over 2020 to early 2022 as well as a military takeover in February 2021 that created severe political, civil and economic turmoil.
Wheat is a strategic and political good in Sudan and has played a central role in the country’s economy during successive regimes.
Haiti has been suffering for many decades a damaging combination of climate and natural disasters and political, economic, social, and health crises.
Myanmar's microfinance sector, agriculture, and COVID-19: Emerging insights and new challenges
This Working Paper takes comprehensive stock of the impacts of the first two waves of COVID-19 (in Q2 and Q4 2020) on the microfinance sector in Myanmar.
Amid concerns about the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Guatemala, in January 2020 decreed travel bans from China, which were later expanded to other countries.
This new Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Jordan is a snapshot representation of the Jordanian economy in which productive activities, factors of production, and economic transactions between the main agents, including households, government, an
Agricultural transition in Russia, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe: Ten lessons for Venezuela
Thirty years have elapsed since the fall of communist governments in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The collapse of political structures took with it regimes of highly administered management of agri-food systems.
Analisis de la institucionalidad agropecuaria en Chile: Una experiencia a considerar para Venezuela
Este documento se enfoca en la experiencia sobre leyes, políticas, regulaciones e instituciones en Chile, y las posibles lecciones para Venezuela.
This paper examines the nexus between civil war onset, natural resource rents, and social cohesion.
Cities and dominance: Urban strategies for political settlement maintenance and change: Zambia case study
This paper tracks how the Patriotic Front (PF) – Zambia’s main opposition from 2006 to 2011, when the party won power – shifted its strategies of dealing with the urban poor, civil society and the middle class, in order to manage its vulnerability
IFPRI e IICA, con el apoyo del Secretariado de la Red para la Inversión y la Financiación de la Agricultura en Pequeña Escala (SAFIN en inglés) con sede en FIDA, organizaron el 6 y 7 de mayo de 2019 en la sede del IICA en San José, Costa Rica, un
Este documento se estructura de la siguiente manera. La primera sección describe las preocupaciones que motivan esta propuesta en un contexto histórico amplio de éxitos y fracasos asociados al desarrollo financiero rural.