COVID-19

IFPRI Insights: June 2020

June 8, 2020
IFPRI Insights: COVID Impacts Food Consumption; New Country Sites; and More Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

Assessing the impact of declines in remittances due to COVID-19 on household incomes and poverty

Remittances are an important income source for poor and low-income rural households in Myanmar. In their research, Xinshen Diao and Kristi Mahrt develop a microsimulation model to assess the impact of declining remittances caused by COVID-19 on Myanmar... Source: IFPRI Myanmar – The Myanmar Strategy Support Program

Virtual event: Social Safety Nets and COVID-19

IFPRI & PIM Virtual Event June 11, 9:30 – 10:45 AM How have social safety net programs responded to COVID-19? Are food security & nutrition issues effectively addressed with these responses? What and where are opportunities and future challenge... Source: IFPRI Myanmar – The Myanmar Strategy Support Program

IFPRI Insights COVID-19 Issue: Ethiopia Hard Hit by Disruptions; the Need for Water Security; and More

4 June 2020
IFPRI Insights COVID-19 Issue: Ethiopia Hard Hit by Disruptions; the Need for Water Security; and More Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

COVID-19 Nutrition Digest (June 2020)

For vulnerable groups at crucial development stages, like pregnant mothers and newborn babies in the first 1000-days, the provision of Source: POSHAN: Partnerships and Opportunities to Strengthen and Harmonize Actions for Nutrition in India