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With research staff from more than 60 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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Ruth Meinzen-Dick

Ruth Meinzen-Dick is a Senior Research Fellow in the Natural Resources and Resilience Unit. She has extensive transdisciplinary research experience in using qualitative and quantitative research methods. Her work focuses on two broad (and sometimes interrelated) areas: how institutions affect how people manage natural resources, and the role of gender in development processes. 

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Projects

Developing Smart Innovations through Research in Agriculture (DeSIRA) Project

Developing Smart Innovations through Research in Agriculture (DeSIRA) Project

The Developing Smart Innovations through Research in Agriculture (DeSIRA) initiative is a five-year agricultural research project funded by the EU. Its main objective is to……

Southern Africa-Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED)

Southern Africa-Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED)

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Food Security Portal

Food Security Portal

Volatile food prices, climate-change-driven shocks, conflict, economic downturns, and high population growth continue to raise serious concerns about food security and nutrition in many parts……

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Progress in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) coverage and potential contribution to the decline in diarrhea and stunting in Ethiopia

2024Girma, Meron; Hussein, Alemayehu; Norris, Tom; Genye, Tirsit; Tessema, Masresha; Bossuyt, Anne; van Zyl, Cornelia
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Progress in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) coverage and potential contribution to the decline in diarrhea and stunting in Ethiopia

Inadequate safe water supply and poor sanitation and hygiene continue to be important risk factors for diarrhoea and stunting globally. We used data from the four rounds of the Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey and applied the new World Health Organization (WHO)/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Program (JMP) service standards to assess progress in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) coverage between 2000 and 2016. We also performed an age-disaggregated pooled linear probability regression analysis followed by a decomposition analysis to determine whether changes in WASH practices have contributed to the changing prevalence of diarrhoea and stunting in children under 5 years of age. We observed a significant increase in the coverage of safe drinking water and adequate sanitation facilities over the period. At the national level, the use of a basic water source increased from 18% in 2000 to 50% in 2016. Open defecation declined from 82% to 32% over the same period. However, in 2016, only 6% of households had access to a basic sanitation facility, and 40% of households had no handwashing facilities. The reduction in surface water use between 2000 and 2016 explained 6% of the decline in diarrhoea observed among children aged 0–5 months. In children aged 6–59 months, between 7% and 9% of the reduction in stunting were attributable to the reduction in open defecation over this period. Despite progress, improvements are still needed to increase basic WASH coverage in Ethiopia. Our findings showed that improvements in water and sanitation only modestly explained reductions in diarrhoea and stunting.

Year published

2024

Authors

Girma, Meron; Hussein, Alemayehu; Norris, Tom; Genye, Tirsit; Tessema, Masresha; Bossuyt, Anne; van Zyl, Cornelia

Citation

Girma, Meron; Hussein, Alemayehu; Norris, Tom; Genye, Tirsit; Tessema, Masresha; Bossuyt, Anne; van Zyl, Cornelia; et al. 2024. Progress in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) coverage and potential contribution to the decline in diarrhea and stunting in Ethiopia. Maternal and Child Nutrition 20(S5): e13280. https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.13280

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Ethiopia

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Eastern Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Africa; Diarrhoea; Water; Stunting; Children; Hygiene; Drinking Water

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.13280 Source record

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Journal Article

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Joint Forces: The Impact of Intrahousehold Cooperation on Welfare in East African Agricultural Households

2023Lecoutere, Els; Campenhout, Bjorn van
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Joint Forces: The Impact of Intrahousehold Cooperation on Welfare in East African Agricultural Households

In low- and middle-income countries, poor cooperation between members of smallholder agricultural households may lead to inefficient allocation of productive resources. This study estimates the causal mediating effects of cooperation between spouses on household welfare and public goods provision in Ugandan and Tanzanian monogamous smallholder coffee farming households. The random encouragement to participate in an intensive training program coaching couples in farming as a household enterprise and participatory intrahousehold decision making, which stimulates cooperation and, in turn, household welfare and public goods provision, enables estimating causal mediating effects while avoiding challenges of endogeneity. Spousal cooperation has positive mediating effects on household welfare, measured by total household income per capita and food security, and on household public goods provision, measured by the adoption intensity of agronomic practices and use of improved seed for food crops. Spousal cooperation has larger effects on total household income per capita with longer duration of marriage.

Year published

2023

Authors

Lecoutere, Els; Campenhout, Bjorn van

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Lecoutere E., Campenhout B.V. 2022. Joint Forces: The Impact of Intrahousehold Cooperation on Welfare in East African Agricultural Households. Feminist Economics.

Country/Region

Uganda

Keywords

Tanzania; Africa; Eastern Africa; Casual Mediation Analysis; Spousal Cooperation; Household Welfare; Household Public Goods Provision; Agricultural Households; East Africa

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

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https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2022.2120206 Source record

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Gender Equality

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Journal Article

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Predicting poverty with vegetation index

2022Tang, Binh; Liu, Yanyan; Matteson, David S.
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Predicting poverty with vegetation index

Accurate and timely predictions of the poverty status of communities in developing countries are critical to policymakers. Previous work has applied convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to high‐resolution satellite imagery to perform community‐level poverty prediction. Although promising, such imagery has limitations in predicting poverty among poor communities. We provide the first evidence that a publicly available, moderate‐resolution vegetation index (the normalized difference vegetation index [NDVI]), can be used with CNNs to produce accurate poverty predictions contemporaneously among poor communities heavily dependent on agriculture. We also show that the NDVI can effectively detect consumption variation over time. To our knowledge, this is the first attempt to use remote sensing data to predict future‐period consumption expenditure at the community level.

Year published

2022

Authors

Tang, Binh; Liu, Yanyan; Matteson, David S.

Citation

Tang, Binh; Liu, Yanyan; and Matteson, David S. 2022. Predicting poverty with vegetation index. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 44(2): 930-945. https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13221

Keywords

News; Machine Learning; Poverty

Language

English

Access/Licence

Limited Access

Links

https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13221 Source record

Project

Policies, Institutions, and Markets

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Journal Article

Events

Transforming Food Systems After COVID-19: European Commission Discussion of IFPRI’s 2021 Global Food Policy Report
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May 13, 2021, 6:00 – 7:30 am

Transforming Food Systems After COVID-19: European Commission Discussion of IFPRI’s 2021 Global Food Policy Report

Virtual Event: MAY 13, 2021- 06:00 AM to 07:30 AM European Commission share evidence on the impact of COVID-19 and discuss the furture of food systems transformation. 

Virtual Event - Local vs Global? The role of trade in building food system resilience
IFPRI Policy Seminar

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January 13, 2021, 9:30 – 11:00 am

Virtual Event – Local vs Global? The role of trade in building food system resilience

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the global economy and put pressure on food supply chains, debate has resurged about the role of trade in protecting food security. Though food supply chains have proved fairly resilient during the outbreak, many countries have faced both severe disruptions in supply and shifts in food […]

Virtual Event - The European Green Deal: The Force of the EU's Farm to Fork Strategy and Biodiversity Strategy to Build Healthy and Sustainable Food Systems
IFPRI Policy Seminar

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July 23, 2020, 9:30 – 10:45 am

Virtual Event – The European Green Deal: The Force of the EU’s Farm to Fork Strategy and Biodiversity Strategy to Build Healthy and Sustainable Food Systems

A discussion on the force of the EU's Farm to Fork Strategy & Biodiversity Strategy and building healthy & sustainable food systems. 
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Blogs

A new rapid assessment tool for food security risks posed by global price shocks
IFPRI Blog
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December 07, 2023

A new rapid assessment tool for food security risks posed by global price shocks

By Nicholas Minot and Rob Vos

Introducing the Food Import Vulnerability Index (FIVI).

Understanding what impacts last, after the project ends
IFPRI Blog
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October 08, 2019

Understanding what impacts last, after the project ends

By Alan de Brauw

A biofortification project in Mozambique shows lasting nutrition benefits.

Charting the future of agriculture in Zimbabwe using a ‘Future Search’ event
IFPRI Blog
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March 01, 2019

Charting the future of agriculture in Zimbabwe using a ‘Future Search’ event

By Kristin Davis

An innovative exercise helps stakeholders break out of set ways of thinking.

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