Introduction

•  Women’s diet is one of the immediate determinants of maternal and child nutrition

Objectives

The challenge of the ‘youth bulge’ The global youth population is growing. Youth account for the largest share of the population in many countries. This phenomenon is often referred to as the ‘youth bulge’.

The incidence of poverty at the district level is represented by the poverty headcount ratio, which shows the proportion of the population with consumption expenditures below the national poverty line (MWK 165,879 per person per year, in April 201

On the occasion of World Food Day (October 16), prime minister Narendra Modi issued a commemorative coin of Rs 75 and dedicated 17 bio-fortified varieties of eight crops to the nation to celebrate the establishment of Food and Agriculture Organisa

This poster uses data from the fourth Integrated Household Survey (IHS4) conducted in all 28 districts and the four major cities of Malawi in 2016/17.

For over 30 years, responses to food insecurity in Ethiopia were dominated by emergency food aid. The Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP), launched in 2005, is a more sustainable response mechanism to recurring droughts.

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This poster complements our fifth Key Facts Sheet on poverty in Malawi, published in May 2019. The maps and the table are based on data from the fourth Integrated Household Survey (IHS4), which were collected in 2016-2017.

Cash transfers are a popular tool to address poverty and food insecurity, but can they also reduce women’s risk of intimate partner violence?

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SPEED tracks public expenditures in agriculture and other sectors by national governments across 109 developing countries and 35 developed countries.

This article focuses on biofortification, which adds to the supply of minerals and vitamins provided by agriculture by increasing the density of bioavailable nutrients in staple foods.