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Liangzhi You

Liangzhi You is a Senior Research Fellow and theme leader in the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit, based in Washington, DC. His research focuses on climate resilience, spatial data and analytics, agroecosystems, and agricultural science policy. Gridded crop production data of the world (SPAM) and the agricultural technology evaluation model (DREAM) are among his research contributions. 

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Development Strategies and Governance

Ying Kham Synt

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Ying Kham Synt is a Research Analyst with the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, and is based at IFPRI-Yangon.

Myanmar Strategy Support Program

Development Strategies and Governance

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Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Rice millers – September 2020 survey round

2020Goeb, Joseph; Zone, Phoo Pye; Synt, Nang Lun Kham; Cho, Ame; Tang, Yulu
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Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Rice millers – September 2020 survey round

This is the third policy note in a series presenting the results from rounds of telephone surveys with rice millers in three important rice-growing regions of Myanmar: Ayeyarwady, Bago, and Yangon. Mills are the most important link between farms and consumers in the rice value chain. Thus, any shocks to rice mills will impact both rural rice-producing households as well as urban consumers.

Year published

2020

Authors

Goeb, Joseph; Zone, Phoo Pye; Synt, Nang Lun Kham; Cho, Ame; Tang, Yulu

Citation

Goeb, Joseph; Zone, Phoo Pye; Synt, Nang Lun Kham; Cho, Ame; and Tang, Yulu. 2020. Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Rice millers – September 2020 survey round. Myanmar SSP Policy Note 37. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134172

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Myanmar

Keywords

Asia; South-eastern Asia; Value Chains; Mills; Policies; Surveys; Covid-19; Rice; Food Prices

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134172 Source record

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Policies, Institutions, and Markets

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Brief

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Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Agricultural input retailers – Synopsis of results from five survey rounds through late July 2020

2020Goeb, Joseph; Synt, Nang Lun Kham; Zu, A Myint; Boughton, Duncan; Maredia, Mywish K.
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Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Agricultural input retailers – Synopsis of results from five survey rounds through late July 2020

Agricultural input retailers play a key role in Myanmar’s agri-food system by supplying farmers with fertilizer, seed, pesticides, and other inputs necessary for successful harvests. Because farm-level input use is an important driver of yields for all major food crops, shocks from the COVID-19 crisis to the input retail sector have major implications for rural household welfare as well as food security. In this policy note, we present results and analysis on the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on agricultural input retailers from a five-round telephone panel survey of between 150 and 200 retailers in Shan, Kachin, Bago, Ayeyarwady, Sagaing, and Mandalay that was implemented every two weeks from mid-May to late July 2020. 1 The objective of this survey was to provide data and insights to the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Irrigation (MOALI) and agricultural sector stakeholders so that they better understand the nature of COVID-19 related shocks to Myanmar’s agricultural input retailers. Previous policy notes2 mostly focused on the survey rounds individually, tracking the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on agricultural input retailers as they were happening. In this note, we take a more comprehensive approach by looking back over all five survey rounds to understand how the effects of the COVID-19 crisis evolved over time. In particular, this note presents results from May 2020 through July 2020 across the five survey rounds on (i) disruptions caused by the COVID-19 crisis, (ii) responses to these disruptions, (iii) sales of fertilizer, maize seed, vegetable seed, and pesticides, and (iv) input retailers’ employees and hired labor.

Year published

2020

Authors

Goeb, Joseph; Synt, Nang Lun Kham; Zu, A Myint; Boughton, Duncan; Maredia, Mywish K.

Citation

Goeb, Joseph; Synt, Nang Lun Kham; Zu, A. Myint; Boughton, Duncan; and Maredia, Mywish K. 2020. Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Agricultural input retailers – Synopsis of results from five survey rounds through late July 2020. Myanmar SSP Policy Note 31. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134032

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Myanmar

Keywords

Asia; South-eastern Asia; Fertilizers; Seeds; Covid-19; Farm Inputs; Pesticides; Retail Markets

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Links

https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134032 Source record

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Policies, Institutions, and Markets

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Brief

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Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Agricultural commodity traders – Late June 2020 survey round

2020Goeb, Joseph; Zu, A Myint; Synt, Nang Lun Kham; Zone, Phoo Pye; Boughton, Duncan; Maredia, Mywish K.
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Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Agricultural commodity traders – Late June 2020 survey round

Crop traders comprise the mid-stream of Myanmar’s food supply chain, forming important links between farms and food processors, exporters, commodity exchange centers, and urban food markets. Traders engage in a variety of business activities ranging from wholesalers that buy, store, grade, and sell commodities to brokers that facilitate crop sales on commissions. Many traders have strong and direct ties to farmers, often providing farmers with agricultural inputs on credit to strengthen relationships and to build business later in the year when crops are harvested and sold. These connections to the farm have important implications for any challenges that traders face due to the COVID-19 crisis. Effects on traders will also be felt upstream by farmers through both their post-harvest crop marketing activities, including the prices they receive for their crops, and potentially through access to agricultural inputs on credit. Furthermore, challenges to crop trading will also have effects on the food system downstream and, ultimately, on consumers. This is the second policy note in a series presenting results from phones surveys tracking a sample of crop traders across Myanmar. The surveys are designed to better understand the effects of COVID-19 shocks on Myanmar’s agri-food marketing system. This Policy Note builds on the results from the first round of the survey of crop traders. 1 This second round of the survey also added questions on two key themes from the first-round report – credit offered out by traders to farmers and trader’s use of mobile phones.

Year published

2020

Authors

Goeb, Joseph; Zu, A Myint; Synt, Nang Lun Kham; Zone, Phoo Pye; Boughton, Duncan; Maredia, Mywish K.

Citation

Goeb, Joseph; Zu, A. Myint; Synt, Nang Lun Kham; Zone, Phoo Pye; Boughton, Duncan; and Maredia, Mywish K. 2020. Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Agricultural commodity traders – Late June 2020 survey round. Myanmar SSP Policy Note 23. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133952

Country/Region

Myanmar

Keywords

Asia; South-eastern Asia; Movement Restrictions; Supply Chains; Agricultural Products; Covid-19; Commodities; Agricultural Prices; Marketing; Trade; Prices

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Links

https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133952 Source record

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Policies, Institutions, and Markets

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Brief

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