The IFPRI Egypt Strategy Support Program (ESSP) is responding to the COVID-19 crisis by providing evidence-based information and analysis. As part of these efforts, IFPRI ESSP has launched the COVID-19 Food Policy Response Monitor for Egypt. The Food Policy Response Monitor provides an overview of key food policy responses in a tabular format and is […] Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
Affordability of the EAT–Lancet Reference Diet: A Global Analysis
New research finds EAT-Lancet diet for people and planet is unaffordable for 1.58 billion, mostly in low-income countries. Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program
Trade, value chains, and rent distribution with foreign exchange controls: Coffee exports in Ethiopia
ESSP Working Paper 136, by Seneshaw Tamru, Bart Minten, Johan F. M. Swinnen. Abstract: Exchange rate policies can have important implications on incentives for export agriculture. However, their effects are often not well understood. We study the issue of foreign exchange controls and pricing in the value chain for Ethiopia’s coffee - its most important >> Read more Source: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
The rising costs of nutritious foods: The case of Ethiopia
ESSP Working Paper 134, by Fantu Nisrane Bachewe and Bart Minten. Abstract: Costs of healthy diets are worryingly rising in a number of developed and emerging economies. However, less is known on these costs for developing countries. Using price data from a large number of markets in Ethiopia, we find that real prices of all >> Read more Source: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
IFPRI Insights – August 2019
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Pro-WEAI; Relative Food Price & Malnutrition; More & Better Food; and More
