The nexus between trade, climate change, and nutrition is important in the conversation of sustainable diets.

Agricultural development projects increasingly aim to improve health and nutrition outcomes, often by engaging women.

Cash transfers boost educational outcomes for poor children on average, but which aspects of educational performance are most responsive and which poor children benefit the most?

A tradeoff lies between inclusiveness and economic efficiency in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals such as poverty reduction, food security, and climate resilience.

Clusters for high-value crops are ubiquitous in China and in African countries.

The paucity of reliable, timely household consumption data in many low- and middle-income countries have made it difficult to assess how global poverty has evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Recent economic relations including foreign assistance scenario in Africa show expansion of China and India as emerging bilateral partners, competing with traditional countries in Europe and North America.

Large-scale male outmigration has placed new pressures on both men and women, especially regarding labour division in farm households and involvement in Water Users Associations (WUAs).

Suboptimal diets are the most important preventable risk factor for the global burden of non-communicable diseases. The EAT-Lancet reference diet was therefore developed as a benchmark for gauging divergence from healthy eating standards.

Livestock markets influence income generation for producers, but also accessibility and affordability of highly nutritious animal-sourced foods for consumers.

Part of the Emerging-Economy State and International Policy Studies book series (EESIPS)

The COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh, associated public health measures, and people’s reactions were projected to have caused job losses among women, a decline in women’s empowerment and reduced women’s diet diversity.

Background

Food insecurity remains a persistent policy issue in many developing countries.

Economic statistics are frequently produced at an administrative level such as the sub-national division.

The biomedical domain has shown that in silico analyses over vast data pools enhances the speed and scale of scientific innovation.

Prosopis juliflora is an invasive alien leguminous tree introduced as a way of combating desertification, deforestation, and improving soil fertility. Over time, the tree has reported significant negative externalities to farmers.

This study examines the relationship between cooperative membership and investments in organic soil amendments in Cameroon.