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The State of Food Security and Nutrition in Myanmar

Inadequate diet diversity among adults rose from 20.6 percent to 27.6 percent with rates higher for women, especially in rural areas. Source: IFPRI Myanmar – The Myanmar Strategy Support Program

Virtual Event: Affordability of Healthy Diets in South Asia (Dec 15-16)

Event: Affordability of Healthy Diets in South Asia - Challenges and Recommendations When: December 15-16, 2022 ABOUT THIS EVENT Healthy diets are unaffordable across most of South Asia. The UN FAO’s State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (S... Source: IFPRI Bangladesh Country Office

32nd Annual Martin J. Forman Memorial Lecture (Dec 12)

Event: My Reflections on Africa’s Year of Nutrition (Virtual) When: Dec 12, 9:00-10:30PM (Dhaka time) Her Excellency Minata Samaté Cessouma, the AU Commissioner for Health, Humanitarian Affairs, & Social Development reflects on key outcomes & r... Source: IFPRI Bangladesh Country Office

Policy Seminar: Harmful Environmental Impacts of Agricultural Subsidies (Dec 14)

Event: Harmful Environmental Impacts of Agricultural Subsidies When: Thursday, December 15 (02:00-03:00 a.m. Dhaka time) Organizers: IFPRI and University of Adelaide Agricultural subsidies are high—and increasing—and are largely concentrated among rela... Source: IFPRI Bangladesh Country Office

‘Immediate interventions needed to lower food prices’

The speakers have urged the government to reduce the prices of diesel and other agricultural inputs so that farmers can grow low-cost food that people in poverty can afford The double shocks of the Covid pandemic and the Ukraine crisis have dras... Source: IFPRI Bangladesh Country Office