Although women’s empowerment and gender equality are associated with better maternal and child nutrition outcomes, recent systematic reviews find inconclusive evidence. This paper applies a comparable methodology to data on the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), a recent internationally-validated measure based on interviews of women and men within the same household, from six countries […] Source: IFPRI Ethiopia: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
A gender-transformative response to COVID-19 in Myanmar
On 27 April, the Myanmar Government published the COVID-19 Economic Relief Plan (CERP), which aims to mitigate COVID-19’s impact on the macroeconomic environment and the private sector and ease the impact on laborers, workers, and households. In their ... Source: IFPRI Myanmar – The Myanmar Strategy Support Program
Strengthening smallholder agriculture to defend Myanmar’s food security and rural livelihoods against COVID-19
There is an urgent need to anticipate the threat posed by COVID-19 to Myanmar’s agricultural sector and to rural households that depend on farming for income and for food and nutrition security. In their research, Duncan Boughton, Joseph Goeb, Isabel L... Source: IFPRI Myanmar – The Myanmar Strategy Support Program
Exploring food security among young women in Myanmar’s garment sector
Malnutrition can adversely influence the health and development of women and their children. In Myanmar’s Yangon region, a significant portion of young women employed in the formally regulated garment sector is impacted by malnutrition. Through data co... Source: IFPRI Myanmar – The Myanmar Strategy Support Program
Food and nutrition security in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia during COVID 19 pandemic
ESSP Working Paper 143, by Kalle Hirvonen, Gashaw T. Abate, and Alan de Brauw . Abstract: We called by telephone a representative sample of 600 households in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to assess household food and nutrition security status during the COVID‑19 pandemic. More than half the households indicated that their incomes were lower than expected and […] Source: IFPRI Ethiopia: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
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