Background: To address gaps in coverage and quality of nutrition services, Alive & Thrive (A&T) strengthened the delivery of maternal nutrition interventions through government antenatal care (ANC) services in Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Dominant clade-featured SARS-CoV-2 co-occurring mutations reveals plausible epistasis: An in silico based hypothetical model
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has evolved into eight fundamental clades with four of these clades (G, GH, GR, and GV) globally prevalent in 2020.
In complex nutrition-sensitive interventions, separately identifying the effect of each programmatic component on the outcomes of interest can be challenging.
Gender in agriculture and food systems
Climbing up the ladder and watching out for the fall: Poverty dynamics in rural Bangladesh
In Bangladesh, the pace of economic growth accelerated in recent years, with real GDP growing at a rate of 6.5 percent on average per year between 2010 and 2016, reaching 7.3 percent in 2017—the highest in the country’s history.
The COVID-19 crisis will exacerbate maternal and child undernutrition and child mortality in low- and middle-income countries
The economic crisis and food and health system disruptions related to the COVID-19 pandemic threaten to exacerbate undernutrition in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Background: Anganwadi Workers (AWWs) are a group of 1.4 million community health workers that operate throughout rural India as a part of the Integrated Child Development Services program.
The unprecedented global social and economic crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic poses grave risks to the nutritional status and survival of young children in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Economic shocks and child wasting
In developing countries macroeconomic volatility is common, and severe negative economic shocks can substantially increase poverty and food insecurity.
Groundnut export tax in Senegal: Winners and losers
Groundnuts are the most common cash crop and the main source of income for farmers in Senegal. Previously marginal, groundnut exports surged between 2011 and 2013.
This brief examines estimates produced by several recent model simulations and frameworks that focus on the cost of ending hunger as well as progress toward other development goals—estimates that range from US$7 billion to US$265 billion per year.
Special Issue on Boserup and beyond
IFPRI's flagship report examines the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2012.
New risks and opportunities for food security
"Given the number of undernourished people in the developing world and the increasingly complex risks to food security, policymakers are faced with an enormous agenda.