Highlights: It examines undernourishment in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Cambodia, and Timor-Leste. Stunting, wasting, and underweight among children aged 0 to 59 months in rural...
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South Asia is expected to remain the world’s fastest-growing region, thanks to robust growth in India. However, this strong outlook is deceptive. For most countries, growth is still below...
During year 2022, the JRC-TMF dataset on tropical moist forests reports a 14.9% increase in forest disturbances in the Pan-Amazon region compared to year 2021 (35,480 km2...
This report from the Tata–Cornell Institute at Cornell University focuses on food systems and nutrition in South Asia. The progress made in reducing the prevalence of hunger in the fourteen years leading to 2019...
Highlights: Achieving equality and empowerment in agri-food systems requires relaxing institutionalized constraints across nested scales. If not addressed holistically, positive change in one...
Highlights: This study assessed the contribution of the agroforestry system (AFS) as an agroecological approach to ensuring farmers' food security in South Asia (SA). The review found a trade-off between...
Highlights: Sustainable Development Goal 2.1: Undernourishment and Food Insecurity The prevalence of undernourishment in the Asia and the Pacific region decreased to 8.4 percent in 2022 from 8.8 percent of the previous...
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Quantitative evidence from a cross-country sample of 4772 rural households.
Smaller farms (2 ha) benefit most from farm diversity.
Dietary diversity increases with...
The COVID-19 pandemic profoundly affected food security by disrupting supply chains through border closures Our study concentrates on South Asia and examines the interplay between...
At just under six percent, South Asia is expected to grow faster than any other developing country region this year—but slower than its pre-pandemic pace and not...