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With research staff from more than 70 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

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Lilia Bliznashka

Lily Bliznashka is a Research Fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit. Her research focuses on assessing the effectiveness of multi-input nutrition-sensitive and nutrition-specific interventions and the mechanisms through which they work to improve maternal and child health and nutrition globally. She has worked in Burkina Faso, Burundi, Tanzania, and Uganda.

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School Meals and School-based Actions for People and the Planet

School Meals and School-based Actions for People and the Planet

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Ethiopian NIPN Technical Advisory Project (ENTAP)

Ethiopian NIPN Technical Advisory Project (ENTAP)

The Ethiopia NIPN Technical Advisory Project (ENTAP) is embedded in the Compact 2025 initiative for ending hunger and undernutrition by 2025. The objective of ENTAP……

Risk Contingent Credit for Resilience

Risk Contingent Credit for Resilience

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Measuring artisanal fisheries using remote sensing: A deep-learning model piloted in Hadramawt

2026Ecker, Olivier; Guo, Zhe; Li, Hanxi; Di, Liping
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Measuring artisanal fisheries using remote sensing: A deep-learning model piloted in Hadramawt

An innovative remote sensing study piloted in two sites (Mukalla and Qusayir) in Hadramawt Governorate, Yemen, reveals the following key findings: Deep learning using very high resolution satellite imagery can accurately detect small artisanal fishing boats. The YOLO11 Oriented Bounding Boxes model performs best, with an overall accuracy of 96.9 percent, and enables measuring boat size and identifying boat types. Mukalla’s fleet numbered around 800 operational boats in 2021–2024, most of which were houris, while sanbuqs accounted for 6.9 percent. Qusayir’s fleet numbered 450 boats, all of which were houris. The composition of the combined Mukalla and Qusayir fleets by boat type and length class is similar to the composition of Hadramawt’s entire fleet, as shown by a recent landing site survey. Approximated fish-catch capacities of the Mukalla and Qusayir fleets indicate that current boat sizes are not a notable constraint to increasing the productivity of these artisanal fisheries. The proposed remote sensing approach is an important first step toward development of a cost-effective tool for monitoring and analyzing artisanal fishing activities in Southern Yemen and beyond.

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2026

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Ecker, Olivier; Guo, Zhe; Li, Hanxi; Di, Liping

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Ecker, Olivier; Guo, Zhe; Li, Hanxi; and Di, Liping. 2026. Measuring artisanal fisheries using remote sensing: A deep-learning model piloted in Hadramawt. MENA Project Note 31. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/182787

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Yemen

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Middle East; Asia; Fisheries; Artisanal Fisheries; Remote Sensing; Modelling; Cost Analysis; Measurement

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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Fish for food security in Yemen: Insights from the Data in Emergencies survey

2026Dey, Durjoy; Belton, Ben; Kurdi, Sikandra; Ecker, Olivier
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Fish for food security in Yemen: Insights from the Data in Emergencies survey

Fish is the most frequently consumed animal-source food in Yemen, apart from dairy. Fish consumption is highest in coastal southern Yemen but also very common in southern inland districts. Nine percent of households in coastal southern Yemen earned income from fishing. Earning fishing income is highly positively associated with consumption of fish or meat and with the frequency of fish or meat consumption. Sustaining fish stocks and fishing livelihoods is critical to food security and nutrition in southern Yemen.

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2026

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Dey, Durjoy; Belton, Ben; Kurdi, Sikandra; Ecker, Olivier

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Dey, Durjoy; Belton, Ben; Kurdi, Sikandra; and Ecker, Olivier. 2026. Fish for food security in Yemen: Insights from the Data in Emergencies survey. MENA Project Note 28. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/179637

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Yemen

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Asia; Western Asia; Fish; Food Security; Surveys; Fish Consumption; Fishing; Livelihoods

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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Strengthening women’s livelihoods through the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA): Policy strategies for resilience and inclusion: The Bhubaneshwar Charter

2025Narayanan, Sudha; Raghunathan, Kalyani; Kosec, Katrina; Kyle, Jordan; Paul, Meekha Hannah; Kumar, Deepak; Agnihotri, Satish B.; Murthy, Indu K.; Sarathy, Partha; Panda, Aditi
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Strengthening women’s livelihoods through the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA): Policy strategies for resilience and inclusion: The Bhubaneshwar Charter

Globally, there is increasing recognition of the significant potential for social protection programs to sup-port sustainable livelihoods and build household resilience to climatic and economic shocks (Jordan et al., 2021; Norton et al., 2020). For women—who disproportionately bear the burden of these shocks—such programs serve as a critical safety net and a pathway to economic empowerment (Kosec et al., 2023; Mason & Agan, 2015). Yet, the extent to which social protection delivers on this promise depends on robust financing, inclusive program design, and effective implementation. Evidence suggests that public interventions often fall short in addressing gender inequalities, and that complementary efforts must be made to redress entrenched disadvantages that women might face in shaping, accessing, and benefiting from these programs.

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2025

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Narayanan, Sudha; Raghunathan, Kalyani; Kosec, Katrina; Kyle, Jordan; Paul, Meekha Hannah; Kumar, Deepak; Agnihotri, Satish B.; Murthy, Indu K.; Sarathy, Partha; Panda, Aditi

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Narayanan, Sudha; Raghunathan, Kalyani; Kosec, Katrina; Paul, Meekha Hannah; Kumar, Deepak; Agnihotri, Sat-ish B.; et al. 2025. Strengthening women’s livelihoods through the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA): Policy strategies for resilience and inclusion: The Bhubaneshwar Charter. South Asia Policy Perspectives 3. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174707

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Asia; Southern Asia; Livelihoods; Resilience; Social Protection; Women

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English

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Gender Equality

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Blogs

School meals and school-based actions for people and the planet: Nourishing bodies, minds, and futures
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May 01, 2026

School meals and school-based actions for people and the planet: Nourishing bodies, minds, and futures

By Tamsin Zandstra, Aulo Gelli, Daniel Gilligan, and Eleanor Jones

Impacts on education and beyond.

Guiding Niger River Basin investments using a WEFE Nexus approach
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April 21, 2026

Guiding Niger River Basin investments using a WEFE Nexus approach

By Maria DiGiovanni and Claudia Ringler

IFPRI’s role supporting stewardship for a key resource.

Combining an array of approaches for systemic behavior change in groundwater governance in India
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December 02, 2024

Combining an array of approaches for systemic behavior change in groundwater governance in India

By Thomas Falk, Richu Sanil, and Ruth Meinzen-Dick

Enabling collaboration in and across communities.

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