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.

This paper assesses the structure of Rwanda’s current and evolving agrifood system and its contribution to national development.

Globally, nearly half of all workers in rural areas work in agriculture (International Labour Organization 2020).

Forsa, which means “Opportunity” in Arabic, is a new economic inclusion program of the government of the Arab Republic of Egypt.

This paper empirically investigates the role of off-farm and non-agricultural activities in Myanmar’s rural sector, based primarily on the nationally representative MLCS 2016/17.

The third round of the Myanmar Household Welfare Survey (MHWS), a nationally and regionally representative phone survey, was implemented between July and August 2022.

This paper was originally published in December 2020 and was updated in November 2022.

Agricultural input subsidies are a prominent feature in the 2018-2024 Strategic Plan for Agricultural Transformation (PSTA 4), which is designed and implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources (MINAGRI).

Do electoral considerations play a role in the targeting of humanitarian transfers?

Egypt introduced the Takaful and Karama Program (TKP), a pair of targeted cash transfer schemes in 2015.

Traditional forms of livestock-rearing and fishing have been central components in rural livelihoods in Myanmar for centuries and remain important today.

Quantifying the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on poverty in Africa has been as difficult as predicting the path of the pandemic, mainly due to data limitations.

The paucity of reliable, timely household consumption data in many low- and middle-income countries has made it difficult to assess how global poverty has evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Agri-food exports are important for Myanmar’s economic takeoff, in particular for the transformation of agri-food systems.

This working paper synthesizes findings from four large household and community surveys in Myanmar, each covering a major agro-ecological zone, to evaluate inter-regional variations in the composition of agriculture, livelihoods, and the rural eco

The welfare of Papua New Guinea’s (PNG’s) population depends on domestic agriculture productivity and stability. As of 2019, value-added from the agriculture, forestry, and fishing sectors totaled approximately 17 percent of GDP.

Papua New Guinea continues to encourage a policy focus on food and nutrition security.

Over the last decade, farms in Myanmar have gone through important market transitions.

Southeast Asia’s agricultural landscape is known for rice production in lowland areas, diverse upland areas, and the cultivation of ‘boom crops’ in the borderlands.

Policymakers in Papua New Guinea face difficult choices as to how best to promote economic growth and reduce poverty in the context of vast differences in technology and infrastructure across the country.