coronavirus disease

Food Businesses, COVID-19, and Its Aftermath

June 30, 10:00 – 11:30 AM (EDT) How are private food businesses adjusting to shifts in food demand and food safety requirements, on the one hand, and risks of supply chain disruptions, on the other? Source: IFPRI Myanmar – The Myanmar Strategy Support Program

Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 on Myanmar’s agricultural input retailers

Agricultural input retailers play a key role in Myanmar’s agri-food system by supplying farmers with fertilizer, seed, pesticides, and other inputs necessary for successful harvests. Because farm-level input use is an important driver of yields for all... Source: IFPRI Myanmar – The Myanmar Strategy Support Program

Virtual Event – How are food businesses coping with COVID-19 and its aftermath?

Tuesday, June 30, 2020 - 10:00 am to 11:30 am EDT - 4:00 pm - 05:30 pm CAT
Concern is growing that the global outbreak of COVID-19, already a health crisis, could turn into a food crisis. In poor countries, the need for food assistance could increase ... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 on Myanmar’s mechanization service providers

Agricultural mechanization service providers (MSP) are crucial to enabling smallholder farmers to undertake a range of power-intensive farm and post-harvest operations in a timely manner. In their research, Hiroyuki Takeshima, Myat Thida Win, and Ian M... Source: IFPRI Myanmar – The Myanmar Strategy Support Program

IFPRI Insights: COVID-19 Special Issue

Source: IFPRI Myanmar – The Myanmar Strategy Support Program