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A gender and nutrition SBCC intervention was incorporated within an agricultural program and cash transfer program in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The SBCC comprised...
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Globally, the COVID-19 (SARSCoV-2) pandemic has affected human health and the flow of goods and services in many sectors, with significant social and economic consequences and repercussions. COVID-19 lockdowns...
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From sampled households nearly 27% of them face moderate or severe food insecurity.
Female headed households are associated with a higher likelihood...
New aquaculture systems are emerging in new contexts around the world in part due to aquaculture’s perceived development benefits. However, linkages between aquaculture and food...
While the health and environmental impacts of using biomass fuels for cooking are well-established in the literature, there is little empirical evidence on the impacts of such dirty cooking fuels...
Index insurance has been promoted as an innovative strategy for enhancing long-term resilience to climate-related shocks and providing financial inclusion, particularly to poor women farmers in developing...
Hunger and malnutrition remain enormous challenges in low-income countries. Many of the malnourished live in smallholder farm households in sub-Saharan Africa. Agricultural intervention programs increasingly aspire...
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Supplying men and women farmers with motor pumps for small-scale irrigation did not increase women's empowerment.
Rather, the intervention had negative spillover effects...
Oportunidades was an innovative anti-poverty program that put additional resources in the hands of women and their families and encouraged parents to invest in the human capital of their children. This program...
Home garden interventions combining training in agriculture and nutrition have the potential to increase vegetable production and consumption in lower-income countries, but there remains a need for better evidence...