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Purpose This paper aims to explore the effect of COVID-19 and the roles of COVID-19-induced economic and community factors on adolescent food insufficiency across five urban poor settings in Africa...

This study identifies food system interventions with high transformational potential for Indonesia by utilizing the MIRAGRODEP model to analyze policy scenarios.

This article is concerned with the affordability gap, or as the authors put it, the magnitude of the gap between food expenditure and the lowest cost of meeting nutrient needs. A visualisation of the affordability gap...

Most economies in developing East Asia and Pacific (EAP) are growing faster than the rest of the world but slower than before the pandemic. Slowing global growth, still tight financial...

Most economies in developing East Asia and Pacific (EAP), other than several Pacific Island Countries, have recovered from the succession of shocks since 2020 and are continuing to grow...

Investing in farmers – what is known as ‘agriculture human capital’ – is crucial to addressing challenges facing our global agri-food systems, from sustainably feeding the world’s...

This article explores linkages between food security, food sovereignty and foodways within the context of poor urban populations in Southeast Asia. We situate the study within...

Indonesia’s economic recovery from the Corornavirus (COVID-19) pandemic comes amidst an increasingly challenging global environment. Indonesia’s growth accelerated at the end of 2021 as the country stepped off from a devastating...

Highlight Recent food price increases in the region, reinforced by food and fuel price rises related to the war in Ukraine could threaten expected progress in poverty reduction...

The largest economy in South East Asia, Indonesia has evolved rapidly over the past decade into a dynamic and decentralized democracy with a growing middle class. The country has...