COVID-19

COVID-19 Nutrition Digest (August 2020)

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, a broad range of stakeholders working on nutrition in India have come together to ensure Source: POSHAN: Partnerships and Opportunities to Strengthen and Harmonize Actions for Nutrition in India

Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 on Myanmar’s agricultural input retailers – June 2020

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. In their research, Joseph Goeb, Duncan Boughton, Mywish K. Maredia, A... Source: IFPRI Myanmar – The Myanmar Strategy Support Program

Virtual Event – COVID-19: The role of the agriculture-ecosystem health interface

Tuesday, August 18, 2020 - 09:30 am to 11:00 am EDT; 03:30 pm to 05:00 pm CAT
This policy seminar will discuss the agriculture-ecosystem health interface that was magnified by COVID-19, and will consider cross-sectoral solutions that could reduce such... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 on Yangon’s peri-urban poultry farmers – late June 2020

Although demand for chicken and eggs is gradually returning to normal, poultry farms in the Yangon peri-urban area are still facing challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In their research, Peixun Fang, Ben Belton, Hnin Ei Win, and Xiaobo Zhang utili... Source: IFPRI Myanmar – The Myanmar Strategy Support Program

Virtual Event – COVID-19’s Short-term Impacts on Economies, Food Systems and Poverty in African and Asian Countries

Developing countries responded to COVID-19 by implementing social distancing measures and limiting non-essential business operations
The post Virtual Event – COVID-19’s Short-term Impacts on Economies, Food Systems and Poverty in African and Asia... Source: IFPRI South Asia Office