This policy note presents results from five rounds of a telephone survey with food vendors conducted in different rural and urban zones of the country, focusing on results from the last round completed.

This study assesses the welfare impacts of COVID-19 on households in Myanmar by combining recent high-frequency telephone survey evidence for two specific rural and urban geographies with national-level survey-based simulations designed to assess

It is feared that the COVID-19 pandemic will lead to widespread increases in global poverty and food insecurity and that these negative impacts will concentrate on the most vulnerable segments of the population (Swinnen and McDermott 2020).

Myanmar has been fortunate in thus far having one of the lowest caseloads of COVID-19 per population globally, with under 400 confirmed cases as of early August.

The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a global economic crisis from which very few countries will be spared.

The COVID-19 crisis in Myanmar poses a very serious risk to the nutritional status of vulnerable populations, notably women and children, as well as poor urban populations and internally displaced persons.

There is an urgent need to anticipate and mitigate the threat posed by COVID-19 to Myanmar’s agricultural sector and to rural households that depend on farming for income and for food and nutrition security.

COVID-19ကမ ာကပ်ေရာဂါကာလအတွင်း မ ကာေသးမီက အိ  ိယ ိုင်ငံတွင် ၂၁ရက် ကာ တင်း ကပ်ေသာ ပိတ်ဆို ့ ကန ့ ်သတ်မ  ့ (lockdown)ကို  ုတ်တရက်ချမှတ်ခဲ့ ြခင်းသည် ထိခိုက်လွယ်သည့် များစွာေသာ အိ  ိယ ိုင်ငံသားများ၏ အစားအစာဖူလံုမ ကို ဆိုးကျိုးများ ြဖစ်ေပါ်ေစခဲ့ ပါသည်။

The recent sudden imposition of a stringent 21-day lockdown in India in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected the food security of many vulnerable Indians.