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Insights IAS published an article reporting that Prime Minister Narendra Modi assured the girls of the country that the government will decide the right age for marriage as soon as a concerned committee gives its report. In June this year, the Centre had formed a 10-member task force under Jaya Jaitley, to recommend whether the legal age of […]

Future Agricultures published the third of a four-part blog series on the future of small-scale farming, Director, Africa Region, Jemimah Njuki, reflects on the discussion in this blog post. She emphasizes the importance of this sector’s social dimensions.  “I consistently highlight a key issue: the social dimension of smallholder farming from a gender and youth perspective. There is a […]

ReliefWeb published an article with the most current situation report for Myanmar. IFPRI, in its latest research, estimates that food insecurity has risen in Yangon Region, despite Government’s cash transfers support. The proportion of mothers with inadequate diets has steadily increased from 30 percent in June/July 2020 to 53 percent in September/October 2020.  Republished in South Africa News Shafaqna, Nigeria News Shafaqna

News Chronicle (Nigeria) published an article on a new study on how the relative prices of healthy and unhealthy foods have been implicated in increased cases of obesity in some countries and such prices could also be linked to nutrition outcomes including under-nutrition globally. The study, The relative caloric prices of healthy and unhealthy foods differ systematically across income levels and […]

Enterprise published an article on the official figures being used by the government. Egypt has taken the data from Impact of COVID-19 on the Egyptian economy: Economic sectors, jobs, and households. The IFPRI team’s COVID-19 multiplier impact estimate for Egypt Q4 (April to June) together with the Ministry of Planning with their Q1-3 estimates presented preliminary official figures (MENA Policy note 6, Impact of […]

Kapitalis (Tunisia) published an article stating that the latest study on COVID-19 and developing countries measures the impacts of COVID-19, particularly in terms of recession, poverty, and unemployment. The study is rather conservative in its estimates and minimalists in its explanations. IFPRI provided a study that contradicts the UNDP study. The IFPRI study, 2015 regionalized social accounting matrix for Tunisia: A […]

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PhysOrg published an article on agricultural data accessibility which is key to accelerating new discoveries and translating them into practice in the field. Some experts say that agriculture trails behind its more open and accessible scientific counterparts, threatening the success of programs to reduce world hunger. However, Senior Research Fellow Medha Devare says, “Agriculture’s not lagging behind other fields so […]

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OPHI (Oxford, UK) published an article on the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is a ground-breaking tool to measure the empowerment, agency, and inclusion of women in the agriculture sector. Launched in March 2012 by OPHI with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the WEAI tracks women’s engagement in agriculture […]

Sunday Standard (Botswana) published an article on an IFPRI study, Relative caloric prices of healthy and unhealthy foods differ systematically across income levels and continents, which states high food prices could help explain why countries such as Botswana continue to struggle with a double burden of malnutrition extremes. Many people, according to the study, in developing countries do not only have low income but […]

Clarin published an op-ed by Eugenio Diaz Bonilla. The op-ed discusses the argument that to avoid devaluation, recession, and increased poverty one must step on the nominal exchange rate. Since we never control inflation with all the measures that would be necessary, invariably it would lead to an even larger devaluation, with much deeper recessions and huge jumps in inflation and poverty, which […]

MarketScreener published an article stating as Egypt carries out macro-economic reforms, social safety net interventions, including the flagship Takaful and Karama program, remain critical for mitigating the impact on the poor and vulnerable. Takaful and Karama supports Egypt’s most vulnerable citizens. Throughout its lifetime, the Takaful and Karama program has had approximately 31 million registered applicants in its […]

Dostor published an article on the social protection program, Takaful and Karama, a project to strengthen the social safety network in the 27 governorates inside Egypt. More than 3.1 million families, or nearly 11.1 million individuals, have been registered since the program was launched in 2015. Many of them are women. IFPRI conducted an independent impact evaluation showing […]

Despite economic growth, agricultural transformation lags.

IFPRI’s Director General Johan Swinnen is participating in the 2020 South-South Cooperation Forum, “Food Security and Agrobiodiversity in Times of COVID-19 and Climate Change”. The forum builds upon global transformative experiences and good practices, and will explore three themes: 1) “Poverty alleviation: Food and nutrition security,” 2) “Agrobiodiversity and smallholder resilience” and 3) “Food system transformation.” Keynote […]

COVID-19 presents new challenges for the continent.

Sponsored Symposia: Stories of Change: How Vietnam, Burkina Faso and Rwanda have improved child nutrition and reduced stunting Available online Nov 2020 – Nov 2021 Click here to create an account to watch for free Through a combination of case studies and interactive discussion, this session presented an overview of patterns and progress toward accelerated […]

Widespread male migration from rural areas is one of the most important forces shaping agrarian transformation in Nepal. One particularly important area affected is the governance and management of local public goods, especially irrigation systems. Given the crucial role of irrigation in agricultural productivity and food security, attention to gender in irrigation governance is not […]