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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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2021 Social Accounting Matrix for Guatemala: A Nexus Project SAM

2024International Food Policy Research Institute
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2021 Social Accounting Matrix for Guatemala: A Nexus Project SAM

The 2021 Guatemala Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) follows IFPRI’s Standard Nexus SAM approach, by focusing on consistency, comparability, and transparency of data. The Nexus SAMs available on IFPRI’s website separates domestic production into 42 activities. Factors are disaggregated into labor, agricultural land, and capital, with labor further disaggregated across three education-based categories. The household account is divided into 10 representative household groups: Rural and urban households across per capita consumption quintiles. Nexus SAMs support the improvement of model-based research and policy analysis in developing countries and allow for more robust cross-country comparisons of national economic structures, especially agriculture-food systems.

Year published

2024

Authors

International Food Policy Research Institute

Citation

International Food Policy Research Institute. 2024. 2021 Social Accounting Matrix for Guatemala: A Nexus Project SAM. Data Paper. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155499.

Country/Region

Guatemala

Keywords

Central America; Latin America; Americas; Computable General Equilibrium Models; Household Consumption; Household Expenditure; Economic Indicators; Agrifood Systems; Taxes; Labour; Macroeconomics; Social Accounting Matrix

Language

English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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Foresight

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Data Paper

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Needs and opportunities for measuring rural women’s empowerment in Guatemala: Possible applications of a Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS)

2024Valiente, Regina; Heckert, Jessica; Paz, Flor; Cabnal, Edwin
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Needs and opportunities for measuring rural women’s empowerment in Guatemala: Possible applications of a Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS)

Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls is reflected across policy priorities at global and national levels. Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG 5) seeks to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls. Moreover, the Government of Guatemala, through the Presi-dential Secretariat for Women (SEPREM), has supported these priorities through the National Policy for the Promotion and Comprehensive Development of Women and the Equality of Opportunities Plan 2008-2023, particularly under its Equitable Economic and Productive Development policy line, which gives the agenda a thematic focus on women’s economic empowerment. Both policy instruments are designed to guide public institutions in achieving the goals that have been set by the Council of Minis-ters of Women of Central America and the Dominican Republic (COMMCA). Economic empowerment is one of the main lines of policy action under the Regional Policy on Gender Equality and Equity of SICA (PRIEG/SICA). As such, women’s economic empowerment is being prioritized at the national level in Guatemala, and also at the regional level across Central America and the Dominican Republic. La igualdad de género y el empoderamiento de las mujeres y niñas se ve reflejado en distintas prioridades de políticas a nivel global y local. El Objetivo de Desarrollo Sostenible 5 busca lograr la igualdad de género y empoderar a todas las mujeres y niñas. De forma correspondiente, el Gobierno de Guatemala por medio de la Secretaría Presidencial de la Mujer (Seprem) ha impulsado el tema, tanto a través de la Política Nacional de Promoción y Desarrollo Integral de las Mujeres y su Plan de Oportunidades PNPDIM-PEO 2008-2023, dentro el Eje de Desarrollo Económico y Productivo con equidad; así como también en la agenda temática de empoderamiento económico de las mujeres. Ambos instrumentos son orientadores de las instituciones públicas, a la vez que, dentro de las acciones que se han coordinado desde el Consejo de Ministras de la Mujer de Centroamérica y República Dominicana (COMMCA), el empoderamiento económico es uno de los ejes de la Política Regional de Igualdad y Equidad de Género del SICA (PRIEG/SICA). Así, el empoderamiento económico de las mujeres es una prioridad a nivel nacional en Guatemala, pero también a nivel regional.

Year published

2024

Authors

Valiente, Regina; Heckert, Jessica; Paz, Flor; Cabnal, Edwin

Citation

Valiente, Regina; Heckert, Jessica; Paz, Flor; and Cabnal, Edwin. 2024. Needs and opportunities for measuring rural women’s empowerment in Guatemala: Possible applications of a Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS). Project Note January 2024. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/137514

Country/Region

Guatemala

Keywords

Latin America; Central America; Northern America; Gender Equality; Women’s Empowerment; Policies; Development; Economic Aspects; Women; Sustainable Development Goals; Capacity Development

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Links

https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136870 Source record

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Agriculture for Nutrition and Health

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COVID-19 and extreme weather: Impacts on food security and migration attitudes in the rural area of Guatemala

2024Ceballos, Francisco; Hernandez, Manuel A.; Paz, Cynthia
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COVID-19 and extreme weather: Impacts on food security and migration attitudes in the rural area of Guatemala

This paper examines the continuing effects of COVID-19 and exposure to weather extremes on income, dietary, and migration outcomes in the rural area of Guatemala. We rely on a comprehensive longitudinal survey of 1,612 smallholder farmers collected over three survey rounds in 2019, 2020, and 2021. We find improvements in incomes, food security, dietary diversity, and animal source foods (ASF) consumption in 2021 relative to 2020, but with levels still below pre-pandemic ones in 2019. We also find a substantial increase in the intention to emigrate that was not observed in the onset of the pandemic. In terms of the channels mediating the variations in dietary diversity and migration intentions, income shocks seem to have played a role, in contrast to direct exposure to the virus, local mobility restrictions, and food market disruptions. Importantly, households exposed to ETA and IOTA tropical storms, in addition to COVID-19, were considerably more prone to exhibit larger increases in the prevalence of moderate or severe food insecure episodes and larger decreases in their diet quality and ASF consumption. The study provides novel evidence on vulnerable households’ wellbeing in the aftermath of a global crisis, including the effects of compound shocks.

Year published

2024

Authors

Ceballos, Francisco; Hernandez, Manuel A.; Paz, Cynthia

Citation

Ceballos, Francisco; Hernandez, Manuel A.; and Paz, Cynthia. 2024. COVID-19 and extreme weather: Impacts on food security and migration attitudes in the rural area of Guatemala. World Development 173(2024): 106422. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106422

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Guatemala

Keywords

Latin America; Covid-19; Food Security; Extreme Weather Events; Households; Income; Diet; Migration; Rural Areas; Shock

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English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Links

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106422 Source record

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Journal Article

Datasets

Dataset

Replication Data for “COVID-19 and Extreme Weather: Impacts on Food Security and Migration Attitudes in the Rural Area of Guatemala”

2023International Food Policy Research Institute
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Replication Data for “COVID-19 and Extreme Weather: Impacts on Food Security and Migration Attitudes in the Rural Area of Guatemala”

The dataset comprises a panel of 1,612 agricultural households located across 75 communities in the departments of Huehuetenango, Quiche, and San Marcos in Guatemala that were both interviewed in person in November-December 2019, for the baseline survey, and over the phone in a follow-up survey in May-June 2020 and May-June 2021 to assess the impacts of COVID-19 on individual and social preferences. This is only subset of the data which is constructed from these three surveys and consist limited information household socioeconomic characteristics, dwelling characteristics, income, asset ownership, agricultural activities, changes in food consumption, food insecure experiences, and self-reported preferences. The full dataset is planned for release in near future after completion of few more rounds of follow-up survey.

Year published

2023

Authors

International Food Policy Research Institute

Citation

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). 2023. Replication Data for “COVID-19 and Extreme Weather: Impacts on Food Security and Migration Attitudes in the Rural Area of Guatemala.” Washington, DC: IFPRI [dataset]. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/6CRXCC. Harvard Dataverse. Version 1.

Country/Region

Guatemala

Keywords

Central America; Latin America and the Caribbean; Americas; Covid-19; Weather; Extreme Weather Events; Food Security; Migration; Rural Areas; Shock; Households

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Links

https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/6crxcc Source record

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Dataset

Dataset

Guatemala Maize Producer Survey

2019International Food Policy Research Institute
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Guatemala Maize Producer Survey

Guatemala maize producer survey is the study of the producers in the maize value chain in Guatemala. These data allow quantifying the extent of food loss in the wholesaler level using consistent approaches that are comparable across commodities and regions. They also enable characterizing the nature of food loss, specifically the production stages and the particular processes at which loss is incurred.

Year published

2019

Authors

International Food Policy Research Institute

Citation

International Food Policy Research Institute. 2019. Guatemala Maize Producer Survey. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/BES7ZM. Harvard Dataverse. Version 1.

Country/Region

Guatemala

Keywords

Americas; Latin America and the Caribbean; Central America; Value Chains; Harvesting Losses; Losses; Maize; Processing Losses; Marketing; Yield Losses; Crop Losses; Postharvest Losses

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Links

https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/bes7zm Source record

Project

Policies, Institutions, and Markets

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Dataset

Dataset

Guatemala Maize Middlemen Survey

2019International Food Policy Research Institute
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Guatemala Maize Middlemen Survey

Guatemala middlemen survey is the study of the middlemen in the maize value chain in Guatemala. These data allow quantifying the extent of food loss in the wholesaler level using consistent approaches that are comparable across commodities and regions. They also enable characterizing the nature of food loss, specifically the production stages and the particular processes at which loss is incurred.

Year published

2019

Authors

International Food Policy Research Institute

Citation

International Food Policy Research Institute. 2019. Guatemala Maize Middlemen Survey. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/E67HQK. Harvard Dataverse. Version 1.

Country/Region

Guatemala

Keywords

Americas; Latin America and the Caribbean; Central America; Value Chains; Harvesting Losses; Losses; Maize; Processing Losses; Marketing; Yield Losses; Crop Losses; Postharvest Losses

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Links

https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/e67hqk Source record

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Policies, Institutions, and Markets

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Dataset

Blogs

Achieving women’s empowerment beyond income and asset increases: What do we still need to know?
IFPRI Blog
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October 29, 2024

Achieving women’s empowerment beyond income and asset increases: What do we still need to know?

By Deborah Rubin

How development organizations think about gender.

ANEW way forward: Strategies to promote women’s empowerment in farmer producer organizations
IFPRI Blog
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February 21, 2024

ANEW way forward: Strategies to promote women’s empowerment in farmer producer organizations

By Jessica Heckert, Kalyani Raghunathan, Agnes Quisumbing, Emma Fawcett, Emily Myers, Flor Paz, and Soumyajit Ray

Examining a promising avenue for development programs.

Survey: Short-term impacts of COVID-19 in rural Guatemala call for a closer, continuous look at the food security and nutritional patterns of vulnerable families
IFPRI Blog
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May 13, 2021

Survey: Short-term impacts of COVID-19 in rural Guatemala call for a closer, continuous look at the food security and nutritional patterns of vulnerable families

By Francisco Ceballos, Manuel Hernandez, and Cynthia Paz

A lockdown and other pandemic measures erode incomes, food security, and dietary diversity in the Western Highlands.

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Events

World Food Prize 2024 Borlaug International Dialogue: Side Event on
IFPRI at External Event

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October 22, 2024, 8:30 – 10:00 am

World Food Prize 2024 Borlaug International Dialogue: Side Event on “Reducing the Impact of GHGs Through Managing Food Loss and Waste (FLW): Insights from Bangladesh, Guatemala, Malawi, and Nepal”

October 22, 2024 8:30 – 10:00 am (CDT) 9:30 – 11:00 am (EDT) Register IFPRI is participating in the 2024 Norman E. Borlaug International Dialogue. This year’s theme, “Seeds of Opportunity: Bridging Generations and Cultivating Diplomacy”, will emphasizes the vital role of integrating past wisdom, current innovations and the pressing needs of tomorrow, by leveraging […]

Metrics Matter: Assessing Progress towards Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture and Beyond
IFPRI at External Event

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August 14, 2024, 9:00 – 11:30 am

Metrics Matter: Assessing Progress towards Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture and Beyond

The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), in partnership with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), will hold a public seminar featuring three studies on women empowerment on August 14, 2024, 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM (Asia/Manila) / August 13, 2024, 9:00 PM to 11:30 PM (US/Eastern) at the PIDS Conference Hall and via Zoom. […]

Rethinking Research and Policy Analysis for Inclusive and Sustainable Food Markets and Value Chains
IFPRI at External Event

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October 13, 2022, 2:00 – 4:00 pm

Rethinking Research and Policy Analysis for Inclusive and Sustainable Food Markets and Value Chains

Virtual Event: October 13, 2022 – 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM CEST. This side event will involve a panel discussion focused on new directions for research and policy to create the evidence base to inform transformative changes in food markets and deliver on the promise of the SDGs.

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News

March 05, 2021 | In the News

Due to the hurricanes and the pandemic, hunger soars in Central America (El Mercurio)

El Mercurio published an article about food systems, food security, and hunger & poverty in Latin America. Acute food insecurity in About 8 million people in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, are going hungry in 2021, in a dilemma that has been fueled by extreme weather events and the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on the […]

September 09, 2019 | In the News

Guatemalans grew an inch in half a century (Prensa Libre)

Guatemala’s Prensa Libre reported on the recent finding that Guatemalan women’s average height has increased an average of one centimeter over the past fifty years, making them the shortest female population in the world. The article explained the connections between stature and other indicators of health and quality of life and quoted Senior Research Fellow […]

January 27, 2008 | Press Release

Better Childhood Nutrition Increases Productivity

Study First to Show Improving Nutrition in Early Childhood Leads to Significantly Higher Incomes in Adulthood  Washington, DC—Feeding very young children a high-energy, high-protein supplement leads to increased economic productivity in adulthood, especially for men, according to a study published in the current issue of The Lancet, a leading medical journal. Boys who received the supplement, known […]

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Projects

Applying New Evidence for Women’s Empowerment (ANEW)

Applying New Evidence for Women’s Empowerment (ANEW)

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COVID-19: Measuring Impacts and Prioritizing Policies for Recovery

COVID-19: Measuring Impacts and Prioritizing Policies for Recovery

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Characterizing and Monitoring External Migration Patterns in Rural Guatemala

Characterizing and Monitoring External Migration Patterns in Rural Guatemala

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