Publications
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Brief
Needs and opportunities for measuring rural women’s empowerment in Guatemala: Possible applications of a Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS)
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Journal Article
COVID-19 and extreme weather: Impacts on food security and migration attitudes in the rural area of Guatemala
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Brief
Feed the Future Guatemala Value Chains Project: Summary of impact evaluation study
Datasets
Dataset
Replication Data for “COVID-19 and Extreme Weather: Impacts on Food Security and Migration Attitudes in the Rural Area of Guatemala”
Dataset
Guatemala Maize Wholesaler Survey
Dataset
Guatemala Beans Producer Survey
Blogs
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ANEW way forward: Strategies to promote women’s empowerment in farmer producer organizations
Examining a promising avenue for development programs.
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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
A lockdown and other pandemic measures erode incomes, food security, and dietary diversity in the Western Highlands.
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Rural populations face heightened COVID-19 risks
An analysis of 12 low- and middle-income countries shows potential pandemic hotspots.
Events
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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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2022 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting
Virtual Event: July 31, 2022 – 10:00 AM to August 2, 2022 – 6:15 PM PDT. IFPRI is participating in the 2022 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting.
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Retail food prices at the country level and implications for food security
Virtual Event: March 29, 2022 – 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM EDT. How are rising food prices, further aggravated by the invasion of Ukraine, being transmitted at the country level? This policy seminar will examine how global commodity prices are transmitted at the national level and what other country-specific aspects influence retail prices.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]