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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 Global Resilience Partnership is an organization spearheaded by The Rockefeller Foundation and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). It works to build resilience in the Sahel, the Horn of Africa, and South and Southeast Asia. The Global Resilience Partnerships works to identify capacity gaps, advance data-driven analytics and measurements, design and test flexible financial mechanisms, promote innovation, create alliances across sectors, and enable regional and global learning through the sharing of best practices.

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Satellite Technologies, Innovative and Smart Financing for Food Security (SATISFy)

Satellite Technologies, Innovative and Smart Financing for Food Security (SATISFy)

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Extreme weather and undernutrition: A critical but constructive review of the literature

2024Headey, Derek D.; Venkat, Aishwarya
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Extreme weather and undernutrition: A critical but constructive review of the literature

Climate change is resulting in increased frequency of extreme weather events, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) already characterized by highly vulnerable malnourished populations. Unsurprisingly, there are many empirical studies of the linkages between extreme weather events and undernutrition, especially stunting and wasting in early childhood, and several existing reviews of this literature. However, the quality of empirical studies in this highly multi-disciplinary literature is uneven, and existing reviews do exhaustively illustrate the potential pitfalls of climate-nutrition analyses. In this more critical review, we therefore have five objectives. First, to map out the existing literature, particularly in terms of the types of dependent and independent variables used, the geographies in which different studies focus their analysis, and the types of statistical methods used. Our second objective is to illustrate the empirical limitations and pitfalls of this literature through a more critical review. Our third objective is to be critically constructive, by developing a checklist of good practices for analytical studies in this literature, which we hope will be formalized and broadly adopted. Our fourth objective is to illustrate the usefulness of these good practices through a deep dive into what we consider an exemplary study in the literature from Blom et al. (2022). Our final objective is to identify possible steps for new types of survey methods and data collection, actions for the adoption of best-practice analytical methods and identify important research questions for future research.

Year published

2024

Authors

Headey, Derek D.; Venkat, Aishwarya

Citation

Headey, Derek; and Venkat, Aishwarya. 2024. Extreme weather and undernutrition: A critical but constructive review of the literature. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2236. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/138887

Keywords

Capacity Development; Climate Change; Nutrition; Undernutrition; Extreme Weather Events; Stunting; Wasting Disease (nutritional Disorder)

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English

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Open Access

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Climate Resilience

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Working Paper

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Rethinking food crisis responses: The Nigeria presentation of IFPRI’s 2023 Global Food Policy Report & the launch of the CGIAR Research Initiative on Fragility, Conflict & Migration (FCM)

2023Carrillo, Lucia; Kosec, Katrina; Onilogbo, Omobolanle; Smart, Jenny; Ambler, Kate; Andam, Kwaw; Anisimova, Evgeniya; Edeh, Hyacinth; Fasoranti, Adetunji; Mugisho, Aline
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Rethinking food crisis responses: The Nigeria presentation of IFPRI’s 2023 Global Food Policy Report & the launch of the CGIAR Research Initiative on Fragility, Conflict & Migration (FCM)

The purpose of this report is to describe work presented and discussions resulting from an event jointly convened by the CGIAR Research Initiative on Fragility, Conflict, and Migration (FCM) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Abuja, Nigeria on May 11, 2023. The event, titled “Rethinking food Crisis Responses,” drew many participants from Nigerian civil society, government, and the private sector, in addition to representatives of international organizations, local and international NGOs, and the donor community. This report was prepared by researchers from CGIAR, FCM, and IFPRI, reflecting on the insights shared, lessons learned, and collective discussions of the optimal next steps .

Year published

2023

Authors

Carrillo, Lucia; Kosec, Katrina; Onilogbo, Omobolanle; Smart, Jenny; Ambler, Kate; Andam, Kwaw; Anisimova, Evgeniya; Edeh, Hyacinth; Fasoranti, Adetunji; Mugisho, Aline

Citation

Carrillo, Lucia; Kosec, Katrina; Onilogbo, Omobolanle; Smart, Jenny; Ambler, Kate; Andam, Kwaw S.; Anisimova, Evgeniya; Edeh, Hyacinth; Fasoranti, Adetunji; and Mugisho, Aline. 2023. Rethinking food crisis responses: The Nigeria presentation of IFPRI’s 2023 Global Food Policy Report & the launch of the CGIAR Research Initiative on Fragility, Conflict & Migration (FCM). Abuja, Nigeria: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136867

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Nigeria

Keywords

Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Western Africa; Food Policies; Covid-19; Fertilizers; Armed Conflicts

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English

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Open Access

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https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136867 Source record

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Fragility, Conflict, and Migration

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Report

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Food inflation and child undernutrition in low and middle income countries

2022Headey, Derek D.; Ruel, Marie T.
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Food inflation and child undernutrition in low and middle income countries

The 21st Century has been marked by increased volatility in food prices, with global price spikes in 2007-08, 2010-11, and again in 2021-22. The impact of food inflation on the risk of child undernutrition is not well understood, however. This study explores the potential impacts of food inflation on wasting and stunting among 1.27 million pre-school children from 44 developing countries. On average, a 5 percent increase in the real price of food increases the risk of wasting by 9 percent and severe wasting by 14 percent. These risks apply to young infants, suggesting a prenatal pathway, as well as to older children who typically experience a deterioration in diet quality in the wake of food inflation. Male children and children from poor and rural landless households are more severely impacted. Food inflation during pregnancy and the first year after birth also increases the risk of stunting for children 2-5 years of age. This evidence provides a strong rationale for interventions to prevent food inflation and mitigate its impacts on vulnerable children and their mothers.

Year published

2022

Authors

Headey, Derek D.; Ruel, Marie T.

Citation

Headey, Derek D.; and Ruel, Marie T. 2022. Food inflation and child undernutrition in low and middle income countries. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2146. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136457

Keywords

Inflation; Income; Food Prices; Wasting Disease (nutritional Disorder); Stunting; Child Development; Child Growth; Developing Countries; Diet Quality; Malnutrition; Macroeconomics; Agriculture

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open Access

Links

https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136457 Source record

Project

Sustainable Healthy Diets

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Working Paper