COVID-19 & Global Food Security
<p>COVID-19 & Global Food Security brings together a groundbreaking series of IFPRI blog posts looking at the impacts of COVID-19 and the policy responses. IFPRI researchers and guest bloggers provide
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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Picture-based crop insurance: using farmers’ smartphone pictures to reduce basis risk and costs of loss verification
<p>A picture-based insurance (PBI) product that assesses crop damage using mobile phone photos uploaded by farmers was implemented in Haryana due to its importance in cereal production, high smartphone
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Potential Impacts and Demand for Picture-Based Crop Insurance Qualitative research findings from Haryana State, India
<p>This report summarizes results from qualitative research on a picture-based insurance solution to improve agricultural risk management. The reseachers conducted focus group discussions with 122 male
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Getting biofortified food on everyone’s plate: HarvestPlus 2019 annual report
<p>HarvestPlus is committed to making food systems healthier and more inclusive to benefit the world’s most vulnerable people—particularly smallholder farming families in low- and middle-income
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GM maize in Ethiopia: An ex ante economic assessment of TELA, a drought tolerant and insect resistant maize
<p>Ethiopian economy has grown at an average rate that surpasses that of almost any other economy in the region over the last two decades. At the center of this development is the high priority placed
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Boro rice procurement in Bangladesh: Implications for policy
<p>On 11 June 2019, the Ministry of Agriculture requested IFPRI-PRSSP to conduct a study jointly with APSU to assess the paddy price issue. IFPRI agreed to carry out the study. The objectives of this study
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Food and nutrition security in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia during COVID-19 pandemic
<p>As the COVID-19 pandemic has spread to virtually every corner of the world, lockdowns, supply disruptions, and economic pain have followed in its wake, raising alarm about food and nutrition security
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Volatile coffee prices: covid-19 and market fundamentals
<p>Over the past three months, coffee prices have experienced multiple spikes and high volatility. This is in contrast to world market prices of major staple foods, which have remained relatively stable.
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Gender-sensitive social protection: A critical component of the COVID-19 response in low- and middle-income countries
<p>As social protection programs and systems adapt to mitigate against the COVID-19 crisis, gender considerations are likely to be overlooked in an urgent effort to save lives and provide critical economic
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Building inclusive food systems
<p>The 2020 Global Food Policy Report focuses on the need to build inclusive food systems, both to ensure that marginalized and vulnerable people enjoy the benefits and opportunities that food systems