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Spotlight on the Coronavirus Outbreak
As the impacts of COVID-19 grow, IFPRI continues to expand its analysis. Blog posts this week include discussions on the potential impacts of the pandemic on poverty, food security, and nutrition globally and in developing regions, lessons from Earth Day, and how health recommendations and illness shocks impact men and women differently. ( Visit Spotlight)
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The COVID-19 Nutritional Crisis: Derek Headey and Marie Ruel detail the ways in which the pandemic is a perfect storm for global malnutrition, drastically threatening dietary quality and maternal and child health. They advocate for strengthening multisectoral nutrition coalitions in order to prevent a full-blown nutritional crisis. (Read Blog)
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Why Gender Matters in COVID-19 Responses: National and global health recommendations affect men and women differently in developing countries, from disparities in access to COVID-19 information and the burden of fetching water for handwashing to the impact of health shocks. Agnes Quisumbing, Neha Kumar, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, and Claudia Ringler provide ideas from development research on how to address these disparities. (Read Blog)
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Earth Day Lessons: With the 50th anniversary of Earth Day falling in the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic, Wei Zhang, Elizabeth Bryan, Claudia Ringler, and Ruth Meinzen-Dick make the case that to truly win the fight against COVID and achieve secure a more sustainable future, the world needs to broaden its efforts to link human health with environmental protection and consider all aspects of the environment. (Read Blog)
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Dramatic Rise in Poverty and Food Insecurity: Rob Vos, David Laborde, and Will Martin estimate the impact of the pandemic globally, finding that over 140 million additional people could fall into extreme poverty in 2020, with an accompanying spike in food insecurity. They call for fiscal stimuli and the expansion of social safety nets. (Read Blog)
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Devastating Impacts on Poverty
Rob Vos, David Laborde, and Will Martin illustrate the potentially catastrophic impact of the global pandemic on poverty, in the absence of national social and economic mitigation measures such as fiscal stimuli and expansion of social safety nets.The world would see a 20% global increase in extreme poverty with urban and rural populations in Africa south of the Sahara bearing the brunt, as 80 million more people become poor, a 23% increase. The number of poor in South Asia would increase by 15% or 42 million. ( Read Blog)
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COVID-19 Podcast Episode Now Available
IFPRI has released a special COVID podcast episode, featuring Xiaobo Zhang and Rob Vos talking about how their teams are conducting research in an era of lockdowns and social distancing. (Listen to the Episode)
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 The COVID-19 crisis is really a global crisis and it has put even more light on the problem of inequalities we have within countries and across countries. How are we going to manage inequalities, especially in the coming years when we will have to deal with all the debt that we are generating today?” – David Laborde, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI (COVID-19: Implications for Global and Country-Level Food Security, Nutrition, and Poverty, April 14)
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 COVID-19: Emerging Problems and Potential Country-level Responses
April 30, 2020
9:00-10:15 AM EDT
COVID-19 is creating a range of new challenges for economic growth and social well-being. IFPRI’s experts look at what to expect, and how developing countries can respond in ways that promote food security, nutrition, and greater equity.)
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