Global trade has shaped food systems over centuries, but modern trade agreements are hastening these changes and making them more complex, with implications for public health and nutrition transition.

Kenya is one of the main producers of tomato within Africa south of the Sahara, with an estimated market value of USD 237 million as of 2012, most of which was produced for the national market (Sibomana et al., 2016).

Given the lack of consensus around how to measure empowerment in WASH, mapping existing indicators to two frameworks frequently used in the empowerment literature illustrates knowledge gaps.

Background: Low-quality diets contribute to the burden of malnutrition and increase the risk of children not achieving their developmental potential.

Background: Milk is a common infant food in peri-urban Kenya that can transmit diarrhea-causing enteric pathogens.

The death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic reached near 6 million by early February 2022, two years into the pandemic.

Two years in, the long-term health and economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to influence poverty, food systems, and food security.

Two years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, food value chains have undergone some remarkable adjustments, evolving to meet rapidly changing conditions.

Two years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the health, economic, and social disruptions caused by this global crisis continue to evolve.

Rising food prices during 2021 caused concern worldwide.

Following the initial COVID-19 outbreak in Hubei Province in late 2019, starting in late January 2020 the Chinese government imposed draconian lockdown measures across the country to control the spread of the disease (Fang, Wang, and Yang 2020).

The COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized a multitude of development challenges and opportunities, some of which are new and some ongoing.

As COVID-19 began spreading globally in early 2020, it quickly went beyond major cities to affect rural areas in much of the world.

In the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers at IFPRI and elsewhere worked quickly with their partners in government, the private sector, and survey firms to provide evidence on the immediate impacts of the COVID-19 health crisis

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, CGIAR pivoted its research planning to better support countries as they responded to the crisis.

As we mark the second anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the health, economic, and social disruptions associated with this global crisis continue to evolve.

During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, several major rice exporting countries, grappling with rising economic uncertainties, suspended rice exports to ensure adequate domestic supply.

In April 2020, Tanzania’s prime minister made a simple plea: “Tanzanians should maintain trust in the government.

In early 2020, Guatemala reacted swiftly to the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic.