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Livelihoods, poverty, and food insecurity in Myanmar: Household survey evidence (May 2021)

Six rounds of the Rural-Urban Food Security Survey (RUFSS) conducted in 2020 demonstrated the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on poverty and food insecurity among approximately 2,000 households with pregnant women or young children in urban Yangon and t... Source: IFPRI Myanmar – The Myanmar Strategy Support Program

Latest Food Security Situation in Bangladesh (data collection ongoing)

Since the beginning of the COVID pandemic, IFPRI has been collecting data to assess the effect of the pandemic on Bangladeshi households, and to chart the recovery process. We have been interviewing households (over the phone) from all districts of Ban... Source: IFPRI Bangladesh Country Office

Monitoring the Agri-food System in Myanmar: Food Vendors (May 2021)

This blog post presents the highlight of the results from seven rounds of a telephone survey with food vendors conducted in rural and urban zones throughout Myanmar, focusing more specifically on the results from the last round completed in May 2021. T... Source: IFPRI Myanmar – The Myanmar Strategy Support Program

Monitoring the Agri-food System in Myanmar: Rice Millers (April 2021)

Rice mills are the most important link in Myanmar’s rice value chain. Mills buy paddy from farmers and process it into rice, the primary staple of Myanmar accounting for more than 50 percent of calories consumed in the country. Thus, disruptions to the... Source: IFPRI Myanmar – The Myanmar Strategy Support Program