Publications
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Journal Article
Feed handling practices, aflatoxin awareness and children’s milk consumption in the Sidama region of southern Ethiopia
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Book Chapter
Diet affordability: Understanding the high cost of healthy diets
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Report
Implementer-Led Evaluation and Learning (IMPEL) evaluation of SPIR II RFSA – Midline survey report
Blogs
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Do ultra-poor graduation programs build resilience against droughts? Evidence from rural Ethiopia
Safety nets can buttress households against climate shocks.
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Can phone surveys be used in standard poverty measurement? Evidence from Ethiopia
An experiment suggests survey fatigue can skew results.
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A food crisis was brewing even before the Ukraine war – but taking these three steps could help the most vulnerable
The poor in developing countries face severe impacts.
Events
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Improving Food Systems for Healthy Diets and Nutrition in Nigeria: Policies and Actions
Despite significant progress in addressing hunger and undernutrition in the early 2000s, malnutrition, in all its forms, remains a major challenge in all regions of the world. Unhealthy diets remain the primary drivers of many forms of malnutrition, including undernutrition, overweight and obesity, micronutrient deficiencies, and diet-related noncommunicable diseases. Today, the number of people who […]
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SPIR II Learning Event
May 16 and 17, 2023 (9:00am – 5:00pm Addis Ababa): The Strengthen PSNP5 Institutions and Resilience (SPIR II) Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA) in Ethiopia is a five-year project (2021-2026) that supports implementation of the fifth phase of the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP5) in Amhara and Oromia regions and provides additional graduation model programming through complementary gender-sensitive livelihood, nutrition, and climate resilience activities to strengthen the program and expand its impacts.
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Rethinking Food Crisis Responses
Virtual Event: May 11, 2023 – 5:00 AM to 8:45 AM EDT. Please join the Nigeria presentation of the Report and the launch of the FCM Initiative on May 11 in Abuja, Nigeria, in person or virtually.
News
Evidence from 22 African countries shows low trust in authorities is affecting vaccine uptake )The Print)
The Print published an op-ed by Senior research fellow Kalle Hirvonen and his co-authors that states while immunization saves millions of lives each year, progress in vaccine coverage remains highly uneven, both between and within countries. Despite considerable progress over the past two decades, the situation is particularly worrying in Africa. Nearly half of the world’s unvaccinated and under-vaccinated children […]
The height of the Chinese is the highest in East Asia, so who is at the bottom? (The Paper)
The Paper (China) published an article that referenced the IFPRI research on stunting in children, Evaluation of linear growth at higher altitudes (Jama Pediatrics). The study analyzed the height and age data of more than 950,000 children from 59 countries and showed that the growth rate of children living in an ideal family environment is the same as that of […]
Living in high altitude areas, children are more prone to developmental delays (Sohu.com))
Sohu.com published an article on about new research on stunting in higher altitudes. According to Senior Research Fellow Kalle Hirvonen, “More than 800 million people live at altitudes of 1,500 meters or higher, and two-thirds of them live in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. These two regions have most of the stunted children in the world, so understand that altitude […]