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Nandita Srivastava is a Research Analyst in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. She currently provides research, managerial, coordination, reporting, and communications support on USAID-funded projects focused on strengthening the food policy research capacity of institutions in Asia, resilience building in Malawi, and climate change action in Asia. She has previously worked on multicounty projects focused on youth entrepreneurship, integrating agriculture innovation systems, and innovations in agriculture extension. As part of IFPRI’s Capacity Strengthening Program, she manages the institution-level capacity strengthening monitoring database and maintains the program webpage.

Previously Nandita worked as an economist with India’s antitrust regulator and was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Delhi. She received her master’s in Public Policy from Duke University with specialization in International Development Policy. She also holds an M.Phil. in Economics and BA (honors) with specialization in Economics.

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Integrating agriculture policies with climate change strategies and commitments in Nepal

2025Chaudhary, Arbind; Babu, Suresh Chandra; Srivastava, Nandita
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Integrating agriculture policies with climate change strategies and commitments in Nepal

The world continues to grapple with acute hunger, malnutrition, poverty, income inequality, and other crises. In 2023, approximately 864 million people experienced severe food insecurity (FAO et al. 2024). On the one hand, poor policy adoption disrupts market and supply chain vulnerabilities, exacerbates food insecurity, and causes economic instability and crises (Hélène and Cohen 2020). On the other hand, disasters and extreme weather conditions significantly damage available infrastructure, transportation networks, and storage facilities, disrupting the distribution of agricultural commodities and as well as regular food patterns (Hasegawa et al. 2021). The COP28 UAE Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Food Systems, and Climate Action recognizes that agriculture and food systems must urgently adapt and transform to meet the challenges of climate change. It commits to integrating agriculture and food systems into climate action while simultaneously mainstreaming climate action across policy agendas and actions related to agriculture and food systems (UNFCCC 2023).

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2025

Authors

Chaudhary, Arbind; Babu, Suresh Chandra; Srivastava, Nandita

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Chaudhary, Arbind; Babu, Suresh Chandra; and Srivastava, Nandita. 2025. Integrating agriculture policies with climate change strategies and commitments in Nepal. IFPRI Policy Note July 2025. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/175444

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Nepal

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Asia; Southern Asia; Agricultural Policies; Climate Change; Extreme Weather Events; Food Systems

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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Bioeconomy pathways: Experience from Africa, Asia, and Latin America

2024Glatzel, Katrin; Virchow, Detlef; Nakitto, Aisha Musaazi S.; Niyonsenga, Seraphin; Babu, Suresh Chandra; Srivastava, Nandita; Kashandula, Progress; Ecuru, Julius; Osano, Philip
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Bioeconomy pathways: Experience from Africa, Asia, and Latin America

In 2022, the Malabo Montpellier Panel published a report that made the case for African countries to embrace a bioeconomy approach to meet their agrifood systems transformation and economic growth ambitions. The Panel systematically identified four African countries at the forefront of transitioning to a bioeconomy to better understand how different governments choose their own context-specific bioeconomy development pathways (Malabo Montpellier Panel 2022). Building on this analysis, this chapter provides a snapshot of how different countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America are choosing their own context-specific bioeconomy entry points and pathways. It provides an update of the analyses by the Panel on the cases of Ghana, Namibia, and Uganda. In addition, this chapter shows how Brazil and Thailand have embraced a bioeconomy transition to support learning not just across borders, but across regions.

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2024

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Glatzel, Katrin; Virchow, Detlef; Nakitto, Aisha Musaazi S.; Niyonsenga, Seraphin; Babu, Suresh Chandra; Srivastava, Nandita; Kashandula, Progress; Ecuru, Julius; Osano, Philip

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Glatzel, Katrin; Virchow, Detlef; Nakitto, Aisha Musaazi S.; Niyonsenga, Seraphin; Babu, Suresh; Srivastava, Nandita; and Kashandula, Progress. 2024. Bioeconomy pathways: Experience from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In Advancing the climate and bioeconomy agenda in Africa for resilient and sustainable agrifood systems, eds. Getaw Tadesse, Katrin Glatzel, and Moumini Savadogo. Chapter 9, Pp. 116-149. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155083

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Africa; Asia; Latin America; Bioeconomy; Governance

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

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Climate action through reducing food loss and waste: Lessons from Bangladesh, Malawi and Nepal

2024Srivastava, Nandita; Babu, Suresh Chandra; Anowar, Md Sadat
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Climate action through reducing food loss and waste: Lessons from Bangladesh, Malawi and Nepal

Reducing food loss and waste (FLW) is crucial to improving food security, reducing malnutrition, providing livelihoods for food system workers, and is key to combating climate change. Overall, food systems contribute an estimated 33 percent to anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions; food waste alone is responsible for eight to 10 percent. Yet, most countries that have submitted their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) for reducing carbon emissions under the Paris Agreement have not included any commitments for reducing FLW. Many national FLW policies are not aligned with climate change goals and the NDCs. To make this bridge, countries must build supportive regulatory frameworks to reduce agrifood system emissions and include FLW as a mitigation measure. From April to June 2024, the USAID-funded Comprehensive Action for Climate Change Initiative (CACCI), through its Asia program led by the International Food Policy and Research Institute, held national level consultations in Bangladesh, Malawi, and Nepal on FLW management.

Year published

2024

Authors

Srivastava, Nandita; Babu, Suresh Chandra; Anowar, Md Sadat

Citation

Srivastava, Nandita; Babu, Suresh Chandra; and Anowar, Md Sadat. 2024. Climate action through reducing food loss and waste: Lessons from Bangladesh, Malawi and Nepal. Agrilinks Blog Post available September 9, 2024. https://agrilinks.org/post/climate-action-through-reducing-food-loss-and-waste-lessons-bangladesh-malawi-and-nepal

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Bangladesh; Malawi; Nepal

Keywords

Asia; Africa; Climate Change; Food Losses; Food Wastes; Policies; Value Chains

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English

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Open Access

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Opening new business doors for ag transformation: Youth entrepreneurship in farm value chains and rural development
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October 7, 2020, 9:00 – 10:30 am

Opening new business doors for ag transformation: Youth entrepreneurship in farm value chains and rural development

As entrepreneurs, young people can play a major role in the transformation of agriculture. In developing countries, too few of them currently get the chance. But numerous governments are now creating entrepreneurial agribusiness opportunities through new programs and policies. The private sector, investors and non-profit organizations are also closely involved. Big questions remain to be […]