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With research staff from more than 60 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

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Kalyani Raghunathan

Kalyani Raghunathan is Research Fellow in the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit, based in New Delhi, India. Her research lies at the intersection of agriculture, gender, social protection, and public health and nutrition, with a specific focus on South Asia and Africa. 

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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is dedicated to ending poverty, as well as reducing inequalities and exclusions throughout the world. UNDP is dedicated to helping countries develop policies, leadership skills, partnering abilities, institutional capabilities and build resilience to sustain development results. UNDP promotes sustainable agricultural practices which supports small scale farmer and allow equal access to land, technology and markets.

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Projects

Transfer Modality Research Initiative (TMRI)

Transfer Modality Research Initiative (TMRI)

From 2012 to 2014, IFPRI partnered with the World Food Programme on a two-year pilot safety net program – the Transfer Modality Research Initiative (TMRI)……

Publications

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The socioeconomic impact of armed conflict on Sudanese urban households: Evidence from a National Urban Household Survey

2024
Kirui, Oliver K.; Ahmed, Mosab; Siddig, Khalid; Abushama, Hala; Intini, Vito; AlAzzawi, Shireen; Adam, Saef Alnasr; Terefe, Fekadu; Fallaha, Hasan; Merouani, Walid
…more Durrani, Akbar; Nohra, Nada
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The socioeconomic impact of armed conflict on Sudanese urban households: Evidence from a National Urban Household Survey

Eighteen months of war have deeply affected urban households in Sudan: 31 percent have been displaced, full-time employment has plummeted by half, over 70 percent of the urban households in Sudan had all or some of school-aged kids stop attending school, and only one out of seven urban households can access full health services—concluded a new joint study from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), launched today. “The Socioeconomic Impact of Armed Conflict on Sudanese Urban Households” study provides a comprehensive assessment of how the ongoing conflict affects urban households in Sudan. With two-thirds of the fighting concentrated in cities of over 100,000 people, understanding impacts of the war on urban livelihoods is crucial for addressing both immediate economic challenges and long-term development obstacles. The study is based on analyses of a comprehensive survey of urban households across the country that both organizations conducted between May 2024 and July 2024, including 3,000 households.

Year published

2024

Authors

Kirui, Oliver K.; Ahmed, Mosab; Siddig, Khalid; Abushama, Hala; Intini, Vito; AlAzzawi, Shireen; Adam, Saef Alnasr; Terefe, Fekadu; Fallaha, Hasan; Merouani, Walid; Durrani, Akbar; Nohra, Nada

Citation

International Food Policy Research Institute; and United Nations Development Programme. 2024. The Socio-economic Impact of Armed Conflict on Sudanese Urban Households. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://www.undp.org/sudan/publications/socioeconomic-impact-armed-conflict-sudanese-urban-households

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Sudan

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Africa; Northern Africa; Socioeconomic Impact; Armed Conflicts; Urban Areas; Households; Surveys

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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Agricultural land: Inequality and insecurity

2024Lambrecht, Isabel B.; Belton, Ben; Fang, Peixun; Minten, Bart; Naing, Phyo Thandar
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Agricultural land: Inequality and insecurity

Land is indispensable to agricultural production and, thus, a critical resource in sustaining agriculture-based livelihoods. Moreover, land as property may facilitate access to credit when used as collateral, further facilitating productive activities. Land ownership also constitutes a buffer against shocks, as it can often be rented out, mortgaged, or sold when cash needs are high.

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2024

Authors

Lambrecht, Isabel B.; Belton, Ben; Fang, Peixun; Minten, Bart; Naing, Phyo Thandar

Citation

Lambrecht, Isabel B.; Belton, Ben; Fang, Peixun; Minten, Bart; and Naing, Phyo Thandar. 2024. Agricultural land: Inequality and insecurity. In Myanmar’s agrifood system: Historical development, recent shocks, future opportunities. Boughton, Duncan; Belton, Ben; Lambrecht, Isabel B.; Masias, Ian; and Minten, Bart (Eds.). Chapter 6, pp. 149-170. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155256

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Myanmar

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Asia; South-eastern Asia; Farmland; Equality; Tenure Insecurity; Livelihoods

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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A historical and regional perspective on Myanmar’s agrifood system

2024Boughton, Duncan; Haggblade, Steve; Minten, Bart
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A historical and regional perspective on Myanmar’s agrifood system

Agriculture and the related input supply, processing, trade, and retail distribution activities that make up national food systems are a major driver of rural economic transformation in low- and middle-income countries (Mellor 2017). As Chapter 2 shows, in addition to directly contributing to rural employment and GDP in Myanmar, the growth of the agrifood system has high multiplier effects on the broader rural economy. Yet in Myanmar, as Warr (2016) argues, lack of agricultural productivity growth combined with dependence on extractive sectors, such as jade, teak, and natural gas, has held back the transformation of the economy.

Year published

2024

Authors

Boughton, Duncan; Haggblade, Steve; Minten, Bart

Citation

Boughton, Duncan; Haggblade, Steve; and Minten, Bart. 2024. A historical and regional perspective on Myanmar’s agrifood system. In Myanmar’s agrifood system: Historical development, recent shocks, future opportunities, Duncan Boughton, Ben Belton, Isabel Lambrecht, and Bart Minten, eds. Chapter 3, Pp. 43-78. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155150

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Myanmar

Keywords

Asia; South-eastern Asia; Agricultural Productivity; Agrifood Systems; Development; Economic Shock; Governance

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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Events

LAUNCH EVENT: 2019 Global Food Policy Report
IFPRI Policy Seminar

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March 27, 2019, 12:15 – 1:45 pm

LAUNCH EVENT: 2019 Global Food Policy Report

IFPRI’s flagship report reviews the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2018, and considers challenges and opportunities for 2019 at the global and regional levels.   Rural people around the world continue to struggle with food insecurity, persistent poverty and inequality, and environmental degradation. This year’s Global Food Policy Report highlights the urgency […]

Blogs

Behavior change communication in conflict zones: Program leads to improved breastfeeding and water treatment practices in Yemen
IFPRI Blog
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October 26, 2020

Behavior change communication in conflict zones: Program leads to improved breastfeeding and water treatment practices in Yemen

By Sikandra Kurdi and Sarah Edwards

Nutritional training sessions combined with cash transfers yield positive results.

How we can protect the world's most vulnerable countries against climate shocks
IFPRI Blog
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July 29, 2019

How we can protect the world’s most vulnerable countries against climate shocks

By Claudia Ringler and Turhan Saleh

Research in Ethiopia shows that resilience measures can blunt the impact of drought and other climate-driven disasters.

A global rural crisis: Rural revitalization is the solution
IFPRI Blog
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March 27, 2019

A global rural crisis: Rural revitalization is the solution

By Achim Steiner and Shenggen Fan

Time for a dramatic, system-wide transformation to make rural areas more productive, sustainable, climate-resilient, healthy, and attractive places to live.

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