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Elodie Becquey

Elodie Becquey is a Senior Research Fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit, based in IFPRI’s West and Central Africa office in Senegal. She has over 15 years of research experience in diet, nutrition, and food security in Africa, including countries such as Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, and Tanzania.

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COVID-19 and rural livelihoods: Lessons from a longer-term assessment and the path to recovery

2026Berrospi, Maria Lucia; Ceballos, Francisco; Hernandez, Manuel A.; Paz, Cynthia
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COVID-19 and rural livelihoods: Lessons from a longer-term assessment and the path to recovery

The COVID-19 pandemic had profound effects on livelihoods across rural populations worldwide. Building on earlier work that examined the initial effects of the pandemic on food security and nutrition among smallholder agricultural households in the Western Highlands of Guatemala, this study offers a longer-term assessment of the impacts and the path to recovery. We rely on a unique longitudinal survey of 1,262 households conducted over four rounds between 2019 and 2022, with the first round in person and the subsequent ones by phone. The results show substantial recoveries in food security and dietary diversity in the region by mid-2022 compared to 2020, but at levels still worse than pre-pandemic ones for some indicators. There is also a sustained increase in the intention to emigrate. The households that were initially more affected in terms of food security and nutrition but recovered faster include those located in one of the three studied departments and families living above the poverty line, while smallholders affected by hurricanes, non-coffee producers, and indigenous populations took longer to recover. We additionally provide quantitative estimates for a subsample of households interviewed in person during a fifth survey round at the end of 2022, showing an average decline of about 16 percent in total household income three years after the start of the pandemic, mainly driven by a decrease in agricultural income, combined with a 26-percent increase in expenditures and an important surge in indebtedness. Overall, the study offers valuable lessons regarding the recovery of vulnerable households following a major global crisis and in a context of additional shocks.

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2026

Authors

Berrospi, Maria Lucia; Ceballos, Francisco; Hernandez, Manuel A.; Paz, Cynthia

Citation

Berrospi, Maria Lucia; Ceballos, Francisco; Hernandez, Manuel A.; and Paz, Cynthia. 2026. COVID-19 and rural livelihoods: Lessons from a longer-term assessment and the path to recovery. World Development 197(January 2026): 107200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107200

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Guatemala

Keywords

Americas; Latin America and the Caribbean; Covid-19; Livelihoods; Food Security; Dietary Diversity; Migration; Expenditure; Shock; Rural Areas

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107200 Source record

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2019 Social Accounting Matrix for Honduras

2025International Food Policy Research Institute
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2019 Social Accounting Matrix for Honduras

The 2019 Honduras Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) follows IFPRI’s Standard Nexus SAM approach, by focusing on consistency, comparability, and transparency of data. The Nexus SAMs available on IFPRI’s website separates domestic production into 42 activities. Factors are disaggregated into labor, agricultural land, and capital, with labor further disaggregated across three education-based categories. The household account is divided into 10 representative household groups: Rural and urban households across per capita consumption quintiles. Nexus SAMs support the improvement of model-based research and policy analysis in developing countries and allow for more robust cross-country comparisons of national economic structures, especially agriculture-food systems.

Year published

2025

Authors

International Food Policy Research Institute

Citation

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). 2025. 2019 Social Accounting Matrix for Honduras. Washington, DC: IFPRI [dataset]. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/Z0UIKQ. Harvard Dataverse. Version 1.

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Honduras

Keywords

Central America; Latin America and the Caribbean; Americas; Social Accounting Matrix; National Accounting; Household Consumption; Household Expenditure; Economic Indicators; Labour; Computable General Equilibrium Models; Sex-disaggregated Data

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/z0uikq Source record

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National Policies and Strategies

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Replication Data for “Price and Volatility Transmission from International to Domestic Food and Fertilizer Markets in Central America”

2025International Food Policy Research Institute
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Replication Data for “Price and Volatility Transmission from International to Domestic Food and Fertilizer Markets in Central America”

This dataset contains replication data files for the paper “Price and Volatility Transmission from International to Domestic Food and Fertilizer Markets in Central America.” The study analyzes how international prices affect domestic price levels and volatility for key food commodities and agricultural inputs in selected Central American countries. The dataset includes time series data on domestic and international prices for 26 staple foods, cash crops, and agricultural inputs across seven Central American countries: Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, and Nicaragua. It covers: Staple foods essential to local diets: rice, beans, maize (corn), and wheat; Major export crops: bananas and coffee; Commonly used fertilizers: diammonium phosphate (DAP), urea, and ammonium nitrate. Domestic prices were compiled from sources such as the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP), and national market information systems. International prices were obtained from the FAO Statistical Database (FAOSTAT), Bloomberg, the International Coffee Organization, and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). All prices are reported in United States dollars (USD) and include monthly returns, enabling analysis of both price levels and price volatility. The replication files include raw and processed price data; Stata or Matlab scripts used in the analysis. These materials are intended to allow full replication of the results reported in the paper and support further research on food price transmission and volatility in developing regions.

Year published

2025

Authors

International Food Policy Research Institute

Citation

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). 2025. Replication Data for “Price and Volatility Transmission from International to Domestic Food and Fertilizer Markets in Central America”. Washington, DC: IFPRI [dataset]. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JAKVKD. Harvard Dataverse. Version 1.

Country/Region

Costa Rica; El Salvador; Dominican Republic; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama

Keywords

Central America; Latin America and the Caribbean; Americas; Food Prices; Fertilizers; Price Volatility; Inflation; Food Security; Markets

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Links

https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/jakvkd Source record

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Blogs

Celebrating 50 years of IFPRI: Transforming agrifood systems in Latin America and the Caribbean
IFPRI Blog
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October 29, 2025

Celebrating 50 years of IFPRI: Transforming agrifood systems in Latin America and the Caribbean

By Juan Pablo Gianatiempo, Jorge Armando Rueda Gallardo, and Valeria Piñeiro

Regional insights from the 2025 Global Food Policy Report.

Understanding and supporting collective action in natural resource management through experiential learning games: Examples from three continents
IFPRI Blog
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July 23, 2025

Understanding and supporting collective action in natural resource management through experiential learning games: Examples from three continents

By Hagar ElDidi, Thomas Falk, Juan Felipe Ortiz-Riomalo, Franziska Auch, Wei Zhang, and Upeksha Hettiarachchi

Fostering cooperative stewardship.

Applying the Women's Empowerment Metric in National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) to build gender equity
IFPRI Blog
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May 07, 2025

Applying the Women’s Empowerment Metric in National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) to build gender equity

By Emily Myers, Jessica Heckert, Hazel Malapit, Agnes Quisumbing, Flor Paz, Chiara Brunelli, and Chiara Gnetti

A tool to collect key data sometimes missing from household surveys.

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Events

Transformative and scalable experiences for a new generation of public policies for agrifood systems
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October 8 to 9, 2025

Transformative and scalable experiences for a new generation of public policies for agrifood systems

Promote a space for reflection and regional exchange aimed at identifying transformative and scalable experiences of agri-food public policies, with emphasis on those that generate public goods, articulate multiple actors and levels of government, incorporate innovative mechanisms and recognize the necessary enabling conditions for their implementation and sustainability. This dialogue prioritizes: October 8, 2025 Special […]

Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture for Healthy Diets in Latin America and Caribbean
IFPRI at External Event

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September 17, 2025, 10:00 – 11:30 am

Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture for Healthy Diets in Latin America and Caribbean

Join us in this seminar organized by the Inter-American Development Bank that will address the relevance of nutrition-sensitive agriculture in transforming agrifood systems and contributing to the reduction of nutritional deficiencies in the population of Latin America and the Caribbean. The event will be conducted in English with simultaneous interpretation into Spanish. Keynote Speaker:

IFPRI @ CGIAR Science Week
IFPRI at External Event

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April 7 to 12, 2025

IFPRI @ CGIAR Science Week

When humanity has faced its greatest challenges, science and innovation have provided solutions. Today, major and connected global challenges threaten the sustainability of food, land, and water systems, with the most vulnerable people and communities at greatest risk. Recognizing the urgency of these challenges, CGIAR and the Kenyan Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) are […]

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News

July 28, 2023 | Press Release

Within the framework of the WTO, IFPRI, and IICA launch Latin American Network of Agrifood Trade Negotiators

San Jose. The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) launched a network of agricultural negotiators in Latin America, which will seek to strengthen the positioning of those countries in multilateral forums that address matters related to the agrifood sector, such as the World Trade Organization (WTO). It […]

February 10, 2023 | In the News

Top food exporter Argentina confronts rising hunger and poverty (The New Humanitarian) 

The New Humanitarian interviewed Valeria Piñeiro, IFPRI’s acting head for Latin America, for the article about the worsening situation with hunger and poverty in Argentina. Piñeiro is asking the international community not to neglect Argentina and Latin America. In the decade up to 2015, the region was hailed for outperforming others in reducing hunger and poverty, but […]

January 31, 2023 | In the News

Fertilizer additive market statistics and research analysis released in latest industry report 2028 (News Wires) 

News Wires published a story on the fertilizer markets. The article states the market is expected to grow from US$ 3,512.65 million in 2022 to US$ 4,050.19 million by 2028; it is expected to grow at a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 2.4 percent from 2022 to 2028.  The demand for fertilizers in many […]

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Projects

The Comprehensive Action for Climate Change Initiative (CACCI)

The Comprehensive Action for Climate Change Initiative (CACCI)

CACCI In partnership with local and regional organizations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean, the Comprehensive Action for Climate Change Initiative (CACCI)……

Characterizing and Monitoring External Migration Patterns in Rural Guatemala

Characterizing and Monitoring External Migration Patterns in Rural Guatemala

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Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI)

Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI)

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