Publications
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Journal Article
Feed handling practices, aflatoxin awareness and children’s milk consumption in the Sidama region of southern Ethiopia
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Book Chapter
Diet affordability: Understanding the high cost of healthy diets
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Journal Article
Study protocol to assess aflatoxin M1 health risks versus benefits of dairy consumption in Ethiopian children: An epidemiological trial and risk-benefit analysis
Blogs
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Rising food prices are putting children in harm’s way
New evidence quantifies significant negative health effects.
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Cash, COVID, coup, crisis: A pre-pandemic maternal and child cash transfer program had sustained dietary benefits during Myanmar’s ongoing emergency
Positive health and nutrition results persist even in adverse circumstances.
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The global food price crisis threatens to cause a global nutrition crisis: New evidence from 1.27 million young children on the effects of inflation
Research links high food prices to wasting and stunting.
Events
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Famines and Fragility: Making humanitarian, developmental, and peacebuilding responses work
Virtual Event: June 11, 2024 – 9:30 AM- 11:15 AM EDT. This seminar will take stock of what we know of key drivers about protracted food crises and persistent fragility and about the obstacles to successful HDP action.
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Dairy and Nutrition in the Global South: Potential, Progress, and Obstacles Ahead
Virtual Event: April 24, 2024 at 9:30am-11:00am EDT. This policy seminar examines the potential of dairy development to improve nutrition outcomes, focusing on dairy’s sizable potential for reducing child stunting and other forms of malnutrition, and how dairy systems are being developed to help meet this potential.
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Global Food Security Forum for Young Scientists
Hybrid Event: December 2, 2022 – 8:00 AM to December 3, 2022 – 6:00 PM HKT. This forum aims to bring together scientists, scholars and innovators from different subjects to discuss their research findings and exchange innovative ideas on all aspects of global food security.
News
New study reveals alarming impact of food inflation on child undernutrition in low and middle-income countries
September 20, 2023, Washington, DC: A new study published in Nature Communications sheds light on the critical relationship between food inflation and child undernutrition in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). The study, conducted by Derek Headey and Marie Ruel of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), explores the impact of food price volatility on […]
Low dairy consumption linked to increased rate of child stunting – research (Food Navigator)
“The study’s findings provide compelling arguments for policymakers, public health officials and nutrition experts to prioritize context-specific dairy development strategies that rely on the right mix of local dairy sector interventions and more consumer-oriented trade policies”. The article is featuring a recent study by IFPRI researchers Beliyou Haile and Derek Headey, “Growth in milk consumption and […]
New research shows potential of dairy development to reduce child undernutrition
Washington, DC: Stunting, a form of chronic undernutrition, affects 150 million children worldwide. While nutrition interventions have been shown to reduce stunting, experts have long concluded that other sectors, like agriculture, need to lift more weight. A new research article in the journal Food Policy, by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) authors Beliyou Haile […]