Micronutrient deficiencies such as iron (Fe), zinc (Zn), and vitamin A, constitute a severe global public health phenomenon.
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The feasibility of implementing food-based dietary guidelines and food graphics in Ethiopia
This study aimed to test the acceptability, cultural appropriateness, consumers' understanding, and practicality of the Ethiopian food-based dietary guideline's messages, tips, and food graphics.
Cash transfers, trust, and inter-household transfers: Experimental evidence from Tanzania
Institutionalized conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs may affect pre-existing, informal safety nets such as inter-household transfers and trust among community members.
Ethiopia’s agriculture-based economy generates highly seasonal outputs, with most production occurring during the long-rains Meher season and a lesser amount during the short-rains Belg season.
The social protection system in Myanmar has remained at a rudimentary level for the past decade, with policies scattered and fragmented across various government departments, and serving only a fraction of the eligible population.
Effects of weather and food market risks on household agriculture-nutrition linkage: Micro-level insights from India
Common lands in India: Spatial distribution and overlay with socioeconomic and environmental indicators
Common pool resources provide important socioeconomic and ecological benefits for local communities and beyond, with around 2.5-3 billion people depending on commons for their livelihoods and other needs globally.
There is growing evidence that administrative burdens in social programs matter to access, and that we should do something about it.
Despite the adverse effects of pesticides on the environment and human health, they are a key ingredient in boosting agricultural productivity as a way of meeting global food demand.
Rural Bangladeshi consumers’ (un)willingness to pay for low-milled rice: Implications for zinc biofortification
Zinc deficiency is a severe public health problem in Bangladesh.
Do electoral considerations play a role in the targeting of humanitarian transfers?
This paper documents the different steps followed to construct Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Balochistan for the year 2019-20.
The participation of smallholder farmers in high-value and profitable value chains as well as contract farming remains low in Africa.
Achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment in food systems can result in greater food security and better nutrition, as well as more just, resilient and sustainable food systems for all.
We modeled six interventions to study the scenarios’ impact on agrifood systems, undernutrition, access to healthy diets, and the environment.
Economic analysis of public investment in alternative agricultural water management schemes: A case study from northern Ghana
This study assesses the institutions and economics of public investments in three agricultural water management infrastructure and technologies: rehabilitation of small reservoirs, fuel-powered motorized small pumps and electricity-powered large p
Does small-scale irrigation provide a pathway to women's empowerment? Lessons from Northern Ghana
Given persistent gender inequalities that influence how the benefits of technologies are distributed, the expansion of small-scale irrigation technologies requires the consideration of important gender dynamics and impacts.
Acid soils are a major constraint to agricultural productivity in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, including Ethiopia.
Blue foods play a central role in food and nutrition security for billions of people and are a cornerstone of the livelihoods, economies, and cultures of many coastal and riparian communities.