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).

In 2022, the world faced multiple crises.

Gender inequality exists everywhere, but it is particularly stark in fragile and conflict-affected settings (FCAS).

Migration is a recurrent, complex, and multidimensional phenomenon driven by a broad set of factors.

We modeled six interventions to study the scenarios’ impact on agrifood systems, undernutrition, access to healthy diets, and the environment.

The motivation for bringing a nutritional lens to social protection programs.

Social protection programs are a central component of national strategies in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to increase incomes for poor households and protect them from shocks to their livelihoods.

Two years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, food value chains have undergone some remarkable adjustments, evolving to meet rapidly changing conditions.

Rising food prices during 2021 caused concern worldwide.

Following the initial COVID-19 outbreak in Hubei Province in late 2019, starting in late January 2020 the Chinese government imposed draconian lockdown measures across the country to control the spread of the disease (Fang, Wang, and Yang 2020).

The COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized a multitude of development challenges and opportunities, some of which are new and some ongoing.

As COVID-19 began spreading globally in early 2020, it quickly went beyond major cities to affect rural areas in much of the world.

In the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers at IFPRI and elsewhere worked quickly with their partners in government, the private sector, and survey firms to provide evidence on the immediate impacts of the COVID-19 health crisis

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, CGIAR pivoted its research planning to better support countries as they responded to the crisis.

As we mark the second anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the health, economic, and social disruptions associated with this global crisis continue to evolve.

During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, several major rice exporting countries, grappling with rising economic uncertainties, suspended rice exports to ensure adequate domestic supply.

In April 2020, Tanzania’s prime minister made a simple plea: “Tanzanians should maintain trust in the government.

In early 2020, Guatemala reacted swiftly to the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic.

With the outbreak of COVID-19, governments attempted to contain the spread of the virus by limiting the movement and interaction of people through a variety of measures, including restrictions on domestic and international travel, social distancin