In Southeast Asia, Vietnam is known as a hotspot for zoonotic diseases that not only cause serious damage to human health, livelihoods, and the environment, but are also expected to occur more often in the coming years due to intensified livestock
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Enhancing resilience throughout our food systems is essential to addressing the impacts of climate change on food supplies, food safety, and nutrition as well as the broader development impacts of food system disruptions.
Through this program, IFPRI will provide evidence-based policy assessments to make agri-food industries and food systems more inclusive in terms of employment and income opportunities, more efficient in meeting the food needs of the growing global
Agriculture is closely linked to both the direct causes of undernutrition (e.g. diets, feeding practices, and health) and the underlying factors (e.g. income, education, access to water, sanitation, hygiene and health services, and equity).
A4NH flagship 3: Food safety
Food safety is moving rapidly up the development agenda as major new studies reveal its severely under-estimated importance.
Our research aims to improve nutrition by understanding and addressing both the direct determinants of malnutrition (such as diets, caregiving and feeding practices, and health) and the underlying contributors (such as income, food security, educa
More than a decade of strong partnership between the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the World Food Programme (WFP) began with a shared goal of creating more effective and efficient food aid distribution systems.
In the wake of the food crises of the early 1970s and the resulting World Food Conference of 1974, a group of innovators realized that food security depends not only on crop production, but also on the policies that affect food systems, from farm
Jessore and Tongi
In 1997, CARE-Bangladesh undertook a livelihood security assessment of urban slum households in the cities of Tongi, Khulna and Bogra.