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The Times (Malawi) published an article on the 2020 Economics Association of Malawi Annual Conference comes at a time the Covid-19 pandemic has left almost all the global economies limping and disrupted supply chains. The conference has attracted top economic minds which include Senior Research Fellow and Leader of Malawi Country Strategy Bob Baulch. 

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 […]

Washington, DC – The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Scientific Group of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Food Systems Summit signed a Memorandum of Understanding today establishing a framework for collaboration on research for the UN Food Systems Summit 2021. The framework outlines key themes for research collaboration, including gender equity, inclusive transformation […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

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 […]