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Women's seed entrepreneurship in aquaculture, maize, and poultry value chains in Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania
Seed systems are essential to bring good genetic material to farmers. Women farmers, however, have benefited less than men farmers from seed systems in low and middle income countries.
Those who leave and those who stay: Individual migration in Myanmar during a time of crisis
Drawing on data from five rounds of the Myanmar Household Welfare Survey (MHWS) collected between December 2021 and June 2023 with more than 12,000 respondents per round, this report analyzes individual migration, migration in which one or a few h
Remittances have emerged as an important source of income for households in post-coup Myanmar.
Household resilience and coping strategies to food insecurity: An empirical analysis from Tajikistan
By applying Resilience Index Measurement Analysis to data from Tajikistan, this paper measures food insecurity resilience capacity. Another objective of this paper is to construct and integrate coping strategies into resilience discussions.
Behavior change interventions to address unhealthy food consumption: A scoping review
High intakes of sodium, sugar, saturated fats, and trans fats contributed to 187.7 million disability adjusted life years (DALYs) from non-communicable diseases globally.
Growth patterns of preterm and small for gestational age children during the first 10 years of life
Background: Preterm and small for gestational age (SGA) remain significant public health concerns worldwide. Yet limited evidence exists on their growth patterns during childhood from low-or middle-income countries.
Women’s involvement in intra household decision making and infant and young child feeding practices in Central Asia
This paper examines the relationship between women’s empowerment and infant and young child feeding practices in Central Asia using Demographic and Health Survey datasets collected during 1995–2017.
The economic importance of cowpea in Nigeria trends and Implications for achieving agri food system transformation
Nigeria is the largest producer of cowpea in the world and one of the highest consumers. This paper documents the challenges in cowpea production and consumption, export, and import trends in Nigeria.
Strengthening groundwater governance in Pakistan
Pakistan is highly dependent on irrigated agriculture for employment, income generation and food security—around 90 percent of all food production relies on either surface or groundwater irrigation.
Centering context when characterizing food environments: The potential of participatory mapping to inform food environment research
Food environments are a critical place within the food system to implement interventions aimed at enabling sustainable diets.
Demand side and supply side factors for accelerating varietal turnover in smallholder soybean farms
The rapid growth of soybean cultivation in the world augurs well for achieving SDG2 of promoting sustainable agriculture, ending hunger, achieving food security, and improving nutrition.
In this paper we present analysis on the recent historical trend in agriculture in the Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) region, along with analysis of recent historical trends in temperature and precipitation.
Using a list experiment to measure intimate partner violence: Cautionary evidence from Ethiopia
While indirect response methods are increasingly used in surveys to measure sensitive behaviours such as intimate partner violence, important questions persist around how respondents understand and react to these methods.
Through diverse roles, zinc determines a greater number of critical life functions than any other single micronutrient.
“It doesn’t matter at all—we are family”: Titling and joint property rights in Myanmar
Many policy makers and academics striving for more gender equality consider joint property rights as preferable over sole rights, since the latter often discriminate against women.
From promises to action: Analyzing global commitments on food security and diets since 2015
Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG 2), Zero Hunger, by 2030 is in jeopardy due to slowing and unequal economic growth, climate shocks, the COVID-19 pandemic, conflict, lackluster efforts toward investing in food system sustainability an
We assess changes in food prices and purchasing power of casual wage laborers based on large-scale surveys of households and food vendors (fielded from December 2021 until November 2023) in rural and urban areas and in all state/regions of Myanmar
Extreme weather and undernutrition: A critical but constructive review of the literature
Climate change is resulting in increased frequency of extreme weather events, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) already characterized by highly vulnerable malnourished populations.
Fertilizer subsidies in Malawi: From past to present
Malawi has been at the center of the debate on agricultural input subsidies in Africa ever since it significantly expanded its fertilizer subsidy program about two decades ago.