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Unveiling New Microsites
IFPRI has released new websites for 3 major country and regional programs:
The Myanmar Strategy Support Program facilitates close partnership with government ministries, research institutes, the private sector, and other stakeholders, enabling researchers to respond to priorities and strengthening the country’s capacity to take on development challenges. ( Visit Myanmar Site)
The Pakistan Strategy Support Program is building the capacity of federal and provincial governments and providing analytical support on a range of issues such as agriculture, nutrition, markets, trade, food production and outlook, water governance, climate change, rural transformation, and social safety nets. ( Visit Pakistan Site)
The South Asia Regional Office engages in evidence-based policy research and capacity-building activities related to food and nutrition security in the region, focusing on agricultural diversification, climate change, markets and trade, nutrition and health, science and technology, and governance. ( Visit South Asia Site)
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Dietary Disconnect: Manika Sharma, Avinash Kishore, and Devesh Roy compare Indians’ diets to the EAT-Lancet recommended diet, finding that the average Indian household eats excess cereals and not enough proteins, fruits, and vegetables. Unlike other countries, over-consumption of animal protein is not a problem. (Read Article)
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Cattle as Climate Strategy?: Ethiopian households exposed to more unpredictable weather are more likely to engage in livestock production as a savings and insurance strategy, rather than to sell at market, new research by Kibrom Abay and Nathaniel Jensen shows. (Read Article)
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Complications to Consumer Demand. Vivian Hoffmann and colleagues find that marketing or discounting Kenyan maize flour labeled as tested for aflatoxin increases flour sales in the short-term, but the effect disappears as soon as marketing or discounting ceases. (Read Article)
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Break the Chain: Most women and men in Philippines-based agricultural value chains are disempowered but, unlike other countries, Filipino women are generally as empowered as men. Catherine Ragasa and Hazel Malapit investigate. (Read Article)
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Powerful Plans: In a study of the Eastern Nile region, Claudia Ringler and Md Alam Hossain Mondal find that investing in renewables can improve energy security, reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions, and be a part of a broader plan to trade electricity among neighboring countries. (Read Article)
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Drop in Dairy
Data from two recent large-scale household surveys conducted by Agajie Tesfaye ,Yetimwork Habte, and Bart Minten shows that the consumption of dairy products in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia has decreased since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. In January-February of 2020, 56% of residents reported that they had consumed dairy products in the previous seven days. In May, this number declined to 45% of interviewed households. All income groups decreased their consumption, except for the richest quintile, where the share of consuming households changed little. ( Read Blog)
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Spotlight on COVID-19: IFPRI is curating a special series of blogposts analyzing the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on national and global food and nutrition security, poverty, and development. (Read IFPRI COVID Blogs) IFPRI-South Asia has a collection of blog posts as well, produced in collaboration with ReSAKSS-Asia, that follow the impact of COVID on the region. (Read South Asia COVID Blogs)
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Research in Photos: In a beautiful photo essay, Simrin Makhija takes readers along for a trip to Myanmar, where she and colleagues explored how to improve the effectiveness of agricultural extension and bolster research-extension-farmer education linkages in the country. (Read Photo Essay)
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The How of Information: Bjorn Van Campenhout, Els Lecoutere, and David Spielman argue that in order to empower women in agriculture, the content, format, source, and targeting of information matters, such as training women directly and featuring women as role models in information campaigns. (Read Blog)
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Leveraging Local Knowledge: Wei Zhang and colleagues find an alternative to having to visit every farm plot in person during fieldwork: using tablets preloaded with high-resolution satellite imagery to help farmers digitally draw their plot boundaries. (Read Blog)
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Homing in on Home Gardens: How effective are home garden programs in Ethiopia? Kalle Hirvonen and Derek Headey find that only 15% of surveyed households operated a garden where they grew fruits or vegetables, with water access acting as the main constraint. (Read Blog)
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From Tragedy to Opportunity: In recognition of World Food Safety Day, Devesh Roy illustrates how India can use the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to strengthen its food safety systems by integrating food safety policies into its proposed $300 billion recovery package. (Read Blog)
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Podcast Episode #5: Picturing Better Crop Insurance
In the latest episode of Research Talks, Sivan Yosef interviews IFPRI’s Berber Kramer, who shares the story of how IFPRI researchers came up with the idea of using smartphone pictures to help small farmers in India reap the benefits of crop insurance. ( Listen to the Episode)
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ASN Recognizes IFPRI Researcher
Purnima Menon, IFPRI senior research fellow, has been awarded the 2020 Nevin Scrimshaw Mid-Career Award in Global Nutrition from the American Society for Nutrition Foundation. The award is given to a scientist whose “contributions, mentorship, and dedication to advancing nutrition research, education, and practice are exemplary and inspiring.” ( View IFPRI Award Winners in 2020)
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 The pandemic is putting further pressure on the global food supply chain….it leads to challenges for farmers and producers with fewer distribution channels and also at risk of excess food…Hopefully, the current crisis and its focus on food security will be a revelation for many of us to start changing our behavior and see our food as more of an appreciated resource.” – Mogens Jensen, Minister for Food, Fisheries and Equal Opportunities, Government of Denmark (Event)
The world’s food system today has become so complex that trying to understand it through common sense raises many questions. If access to safe and nutritious food is a fundamental right, why are millions of people living in hunger today? Why do farmers and farm workers who produce food, remain starved?… Something is fundamentally wrong in our methods of ensuring that no one goes to bed hungry.” – Reema Nanavaty, Director, Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) (Event)
The recovery [from COVID] may be complicated by climatic changes. The mass locust invasion is a huge threat to many countries in Africa and Asia. All of these factors can lead to possible development of the pandemic into a global human catastrophe and large-scale food crisis.” – Sergey Shoba, Director, Eurasian Center for Food Security at Lomonosov Moscow State University (Event)
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As it is a broad-based crisis, families have limited possibilities to resort to traditional family or communal support, because everyone is affected… Only the public sector can help, but it is expensive… Perú has fiscal space to implement a substantial policy package; for countries fiscally constrained it will be far more difficult.” – Carolina Trivelli, Senior Researcher, Peruvian Studies Institute and Former Minister of Social Development, Peru (Event)
The China Agricultural Sector Development Report 2020 and 2020 GFPR… deeply explore how China and the world respond to the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic and other challenges, and how China should continue to promote the reform and development of agricultural industry.” – Huajun Tang, President, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) (Event)
When we look at food systems impacts [of COVID]… the effects have mainly been on nutritious foods…fruits, vegetables, fish, eggs, milk, and legumes. This is obviously of grave concern.” – Corinna Hawkes, Director, Centre for Food Policy, City, University of London (Event)
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