Africa agriculture trade monitor 2019
The second annual Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor assesses emerging and long-term trends and drivers shaping Africa’s trade in agricultural products and evaluates the possible impacts of current trade
International Food Policy Research Institute
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2016 Global Food Policy Report
IFPRI’s Flagship Report puts into perspective the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2015 and highlights challenges and opportunities for 2016. This year’s report takes a special
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Why some are more equal than others: country typologies of food security
This paper examines the different approaches and methodologies for classification of countries in terms of their food and nutrition security conditions. Its objective is to identify a number of country
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Estimating the cost of delivering direct nutrition interventions at scale: National and subnational level insights from India
Undernutrition imposes a staggering cost worldwide in terms of lives lost, forgone productivity, healthcare spending, and reduced lifetime earnings. In India, nutrition policies recognize the multifaceted
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Macroeconomics, agriculture, and food security: a guide to policy analysis in Developing Countries
Literature on macroeconomics is often technical, includes different approaches, and consists of many controversial ideas and methodologies. Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla’s new book, Macroeconomics, Agriculture,
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2015 Global Hunger Index: armed conflict and the challenge of hunger
The level of hunger in developing countries as a group has fallen by 27 percent since 2000. While the world has made progress in reducing hunger in recent decades, the state of hunger is still serious
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Global Nutrition Report 2015: actions and accountability to advance nutrition and sustainable development
Children whose growth is stunted, people who don’t get enough vitamins and minerals for a healthy life, adults who are overweight and obese—malnutrition takes many forms and affects every country on earth.
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Delivering for nutrition in Madhya Pradesh: insights from a study on the state of essential nutrition interventions
In India, policies are in place to address the set of nutrition-specific interventions that will accelerate progress in nutrition, if implemented at scale. These interventions include iron and folic acid
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2014-2015 Global Food Policy report
This 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report is the fourth in an annual series that provides a comprehensive overview of major food policy developments and events. In this report, distinguished researchers,
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Is reliable water access the solution to undernutrition?: a review of the potential of irrigation to solve nutrition and gender gaps in Africa South of the Sahara
Interventions aimed at increasing water availability for livelihood and domestic activities have great potential to improve various determinants of undernutrition, such as the quantity and diversity of
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Global Nutrition Report 2014
<p><img alt="" src="http://www.downtoearth.org.in/sites/default/files/images/mal%204.preview.jpg" style="width: 330px; height: 186px; margin: 14px; float: left;" />This first ever Global Nutrition Report