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Global food policy report 2024: Food systems for healthy diets and nutrition

Food systems and diets underpin many critical challenges to public health and environmental sustainability, including malnutrition, noncommunicable diseases, and climate change, but sustainable healthy diets have the unique potential to reshape th

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Liquid milk: Savings, insurance and side-selling in cooperatives

Limited access to reliable financial instruments makes it difficult for rural households to manage daily cash flows. Selling goods through cooperatives can improve savings, but cooperative income is not easily accessible when facing an emergency.

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Nonclassical measurement error and farmers’ response to information treatment

This paper reports on a randomized experiment conducted among Malawian agricultural households to study nonclassical measurement error (NCME) in self-reported plot area, and farmers' responses to new information — the objective plot area measure —

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Do referrals improve the representation of women in mobile phone surveys?

Random digit dial surveys with mobile phones risk under-representation of women. To address this, we compare the characteristics of women recruited directly with those of women recruited through referrals from male household members.

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Global food policy report 2023: Rethinking food crisis responses: Synopsis [in Chinese]

2022年,世界面临多重危机。旷日持久的2019冠状病毒病疫情(COVID-19)、重大自然灾害、内乱和政治动荡以及气候变化日益严重的影响对食物系统的破坏仍在继续,而与此同时,俄乌战争和通货膨胀加剧了全球粮食和化肥危机。危机数量不断增加,多种危机的叠加影响日益加剧,饥饿人口和流离失所者数量不断攀升,促使人们呼吁重新思考粮食危机应对措施,从而为变革创造了一个真正的机会。

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Agrifood value chains: Building resilient food systems

Agrifood value chains in the world’s low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have expanded rapidly over the past decade, supplying an increasing volume and diversity of food products.

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Regional developments [in 2023 Global Food Policy Report]

Recent global crises have led to diverse impacts across the world’s low- and middle-income regions, reflecting local conditions and differing policy responses.

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Social protection: Adaptive safety nets for crisis recovery

Over the past two decades, social protection programs have become a mainstream policy tool to address chronic poverty and food insecurity in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

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Food crisis risk monitoring: Early warning for early action

Global and national agrifood systems are vulnerable to a variety of shocks that have caused major disruptions to food production, markets, and livelihoods over the past two decades, and have set back efforts to reduce poverty, food insecurity, and

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Crisis resilience: Humanitarian response and anticipatory action

In human, economic, and environmental terms, the total cost of disaster and crisis response is extremely high, and the disastrous combination of the food price crises coming on the heels of the COVID-19 pandemic and natural calamities is straining

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Global food policy report 2023: Rethinking food crisis responses

Now is the time to rethink how we address food crises. Better prediction, preparation, and resilience building can make future crises less common and less devastating, and improved responses can contribute to greater food security, better nutrition, and sustainable livelihoods

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Social and financial incentives for overcoming a collective action problem

Addressing public health externalities often requires community-level collective action. Due to social norms, each person’s sanitation investment decisions may depend on the decisions of neighbors.