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During recent decades, agriculture has developed rapidly in China, ensuring food security and enriching residents’ diets.
The unsustainable agricultural production mode of “high input and high output” has imposed a heavy burden on China’s ecosystems, and severely restricted the sustainable development of the country’s agrifood systems.
With rapid improvements in agricultural productivity and residents’ income, China has made remarkable advances in reducing hunger and malnutrition, as well as quality improvements in residents’ diets, witnessed by the progressively increasing cons
Rethinking agrifood systems for the post-COVID world
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 has caused a global public health crisis. It has also severely damaged the world’s agrifood systems.
This study estimates the effects of the shares of subnational public expenditure (PE) for agriculture, health, education, and social-welfare, as well as PE-size, on household-level outcomes, using nationally representative panel household data and
Most food retail prices in September 2021 were found to be substantially higher than in September 2020. Retail prices of the cheapest variety of rice–by far the most important staple in Myanmar–have risen by 8 percent, on average.
Understanding the effects of agricultural R&D investments on poverty and undernourishment in sub-saharan Africa: A causal mediation approach
This analysis explores the relationship between agricultural R&D investments and rural poverty reduction, and the prevalence of undernourishment in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
Subnational public expenditures, short-term household-level welfare, and economic resilience: Evidence from Nigeria
Public expenditures (PE) are critical for key public sector functions that contribute to development and welfare improvements, including the provisions of necessary public goods and the mitigation of market failures.
Smart subsidies for sustainable soils: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in southern Malawi
Conventional agricultural practices – especially conventional tillage – are a major driver of soil erosion globally.
Nutrition policy in Cape Verde
This brief summarizes nutrition-relevant policies in Cape Verde.
Nutrition policy in Sierra Leone
This brief summarizes nutrition-relevant policies in Sierra Leone.
Nutrition policy in Liberia
This brief summarizes nutrition-relevant policies in Liberia.
Nutrition policy in Guinea-Bissau
This brief summarizes nutrition-relevant policies in Guinea Bissau.
Nutrition policy in The Gambia
This brief summarizes nutrition-relevant policies in The Gambia.
In the context of a mounting burden of overweight and obesity and a persisting burden of undernutrition, double-duty actions (DDAs) (Figure 1) [1] are needed to tackle multiple forms of malnutrition simultaneously [2].
Nutrition policy in Guinea
This brief summarizes nutrition-relevant policies in Guinea.