The global COVID-19 crisis and its impact on food security, nutrition, poverty, and gender
As the COVID-19 pandemic intensifies, governments, researchers, and development practitioners are coming to grips with the potential global implications for food security, nutrition, poverty, and gender:
- A special issue of the IFPRI Insights newsletter highlights a series of analyses from IFPRI researchers and guest contributors on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on national and global food and nutrition security, poverty, and development.
- Maximo Torero, Assistant Director General for Economic and Social Development at FAO, calls for a four-pronged approach to help food supply chains withstand the shock of the pandemic.
- A policy paper from CARE examines the gender implications of COVID-19 outbreaks in development and humanitarian settings, including potential adverse effects on education, food security and nutrition, health, livelihoods, and protection.
Podcast: Will travel for data, to Papua New Guinea
The third episode of IFPRI’s Research Talks podcast shares how IFPRI researchers began engaging in Papua New Guinea, traveling through difficult terrain to collect household data and working with partners to build up capacity to do research and evidence-based policy analysis.
Combining training and low-cost technology could help smallholders fight aflatoxin
Aflatoxin is a common fungal toxin that poses a significant threat to health and economic growth in many developing countries. A SciDevNet piece by IFPRI Research Fellow Vivian Hoffmann shares results from an experimental study to help maize farmers in Kenya improve their practices and preserve their crops by reducing contamination from aflatoxin. Results suggest that low-cost training and technology can have a significant impact on reducing aflatoxin contamination. Further research is needed to understand the impacts at scale.
USAID Advancing Nutrition launches Resource Hub
USAID Advancing Nutrition has launched a Nutrition Resource Hub, which hosts a curated collection of more than 300 multi-sectoral nutrition tools and resources developed by USAID and its projects over the past decade.
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