Food security – Status and determinants – During the COVID-19 lockdown: Evidence from primary survey in eastern India
Lockdowns induced by COVID-19 have threatened food security in most developing countries.
Lockdowns induced by COVID-19 have threatened food security in most developing countries.
Zinc deficiency is a severe public health issue in Bangladesh.
Vast amounts of resources are spent on support to agriculture, with questionable results for agriculture, for national incomes, for nutrition and for the environment.
A growing interest is emerging in the literature to explore how child nutrition is affected by sociocultural practices, such as polygyny.
In many developing countries, agricultural policies and programs are often designed in a way to promote productivity growth with modern inputs and technologies, and with limited reference to the nutrition gains that gain be made through production
Food insecurity and malnutrition are being worsened in countries that are exposed to armed conflict. Nigeria has witnessed a decade of protracted armed conflict and civil unrest.
Robust income growth combined with the highest urban population growth in the world is driving very rapid changes in the food system of Sub-Saharan Africa.
The purpose of this paper is to characterize pesticide use in developing Sub-Saharan Africa (dSSA) in the context of urbanization, income growth, and food system change.
This paper describes and tests the feasibility of Picture-Based Crop Insurance (PBI), a new way to deliver affordable and easy-to-understand insurance.
Bundling agricultural insurance with climate-smart technologies and practices (CSA) can help improve risk management for smallholder farmers. This paper analyzes how bundling affects demand for insurance and CSA.
An ex-ante assessment of the effects of widespread adoption of CSA.
Malnutrition is one of the biggest public health challenges of the century with about 2 billion people affected by it globally.
In this paper, we present four globally-consistent regional scenarios on Western Africa’s development that have been used to test and develop a range of national and regional policies.