Related Publications: Southeast Asia
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The FAO-IFPRI study, focuses on the use of tractors because they are among the most versatile farm mechanization tools and are universal power sources for all other driven implements and equipment in agriculture, with significant potential to repl
Phone surveillance, from scratch: Novel sample design features of the nationally representative Myanmar Household Welfare Survey (MHWS)
The first round of the Myanmar Household Welfare Survey (MHWS)–a nationwide phone panel consisting of 12,100 households–was implemented between December 2021 and February 2022.
India’s self-sufficiency policies for pulses and their implications for Myanmar
Globally, India is the largest producer and consumer of pulses, but increasing demand due to population growth has made the country reliant on imports, including from Myanmar. In turn, Myanmar is highly dependent on exports to India.
Tensions and coalitions: A new trade agreement affects the policy space for nutrition in Vietnam
Global trade has shaped food systems over centuries, but modern trade agreements are hastening these changes and making them more complex, with implications for public health and nutrition transition.
Poverty and food insecurity during COVID-19: Phone-survey evidence from rural and urban Myanmar in 2020
Myanmar first experienced the COVID-19 crisis as a relatively brief economic shock in early 2020, before the economy was later engulfed by a prolonged surge in COVID-19 cases from September 2020 onwards.
Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity (MAPSA) fact sheet
USAID’s Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity (MAPSA) integrates research, policy design, and public outreach to establish the foundation required for a sustainable and inclusive agricultural sector in Burma.
Agricultural value chains in a fragile state: The case of rice in Myanmar
Nearly one-quarter of the global population lives in fragile states.
Monitoring the agri-food system in Myanmar: Mechanization service providers – January 2022 survey round
A phone survey was conducted in January 2022 to understand the effects of COVID-19 and political instability on Myanmar’s mechanization service providers (MSPs), crucial to enabling smallholder farmers to undertake a range of power-intensive farm
COVID-19 undermines incomes, livelihoods in rural Myanmar
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded in early 2020, Myanmar avoided an early wave of infections. However, even before its first cases were confirmed, the country faced a related economic crisis.