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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Publication: Analysis of Adolescent Birth & Child Undernutrition
Adolescent birth is a major global concern owing to its adverse effects on maternal and child health. IFPRI researchers assessed trends in adolescent birth and examined its associations with child undernutrition in Bangladesh using data from seven roun... Source: IFPRI Bangladesh Country Office
Factors influencing the performance of community health workers: A qualitative study of Anganwadi workers from Bihar, India
Globally, there remain significant knowledge and evidence gaps around how to support Community Health Worker (CHW) programmes to achieve high coverage and quality of interventions.
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Women’s access to agriculture extension amidst COVID-19: Insights from Gujarat, India and Dang, Nepal
COVID-19 induced lockdowns have had far reaching impacts on the rural sector, particularly on women farmers.
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COVID‐19, government transfer payments, and investment decisions in farming business: Evidence from Northern India
This paper examines whether the public transfer program PMGKY, announced immediately after the lockdown, benefited farmers in dealing with the COVID shock.
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