COVID-19

Poverty and food insecurity during COVID-19: Phone-survey evidence from rural and urban Myanmar in 2020

Myanmar first experienced the COVID-19 crisis as a relatively brief economic shock in early 2020, before the economy was later engulfed by a prolonged surge in COVID-19 cases from September 2020 onwards. To analyze poverty and food security in Myanmar ... Source: IFPRI Myanmar – The Myanmar Strategy Support Program

Project Note: Resilience in the Malawi Agri-food System Amid the COVID-19 Crisis

This project note provides a farm-level analysis of the effects of the COVID-19 crisis, 12–15 months in, using a nationally representative rural household survey conducted in June–July 2021. We draw three major observations from the survey. First, farm... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

The Closing Workshop for the project, Building a Post-COVID-19 Recovery and Ag-Foresight Team in Egypt, on March 14, 2022

BLOG BY MARIAM RAOUF AND YUMNA KASSIM On Monday, March 14th, 2022, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Delegation of the European Union (EU) to Egypt held a closing workshop for the project, “Building a Post-COVID-19 Recove... Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office

NEW PUBLICATION: Remote sensing data for monitoring agricultural production and economic activity: Application in Egypt

POLICY NOTE BY KIBROM A. ABAY, FADI ABDELRADI, YUMNA KASSIM AND ZHE GUO This policy note showcases two examples on how remote sensing data can be used for monitoring agricultural production and economic activities. The first case aims to generate granu... Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office

COVID-19 and global food security: Two years later (E-book)

This volume presents key lessons learned on food security and food system resilience in 2020 to 2021 and assesses the effectiveness of policy responses to the crisis.
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