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Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is an important crop with potential for improving food and nutrition security, economic opportunities, and agroecosystems. Burundi and Zimbabwe are at risk of food...

Healthy diets have been characterized as responding to four universal principles—nutrient adequacy, dietary diversity, macronutrient balance, and moderation. With rising incomes, diet concerns globally...

Highlights: The Kenyan economy was significantly affected by the global supply chain disruptions stemming from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The macroeconomic impacts were largely driven by global...

Key takeaways: The Lao fiscal system in 2018 was progressive and helped reduce inequality. The net effect of fiscal interventions moderately reduces inequality while the total...

Numerous structural vulnerabilities put developing regions at a disadvantage as they confront the prospect of increasingly frequent extreme shocks. Typical of these regions, South Asia had...

We use economywide models to examine the economic recovery from COVID-19 shocks in Bangladesh and Nepal during 2020–2026. Declining labor productivity, capital underutilization, consumption shifts...

Highlights: Andhra Pradesh Community-Managed Natural Farming (APCNF) is a state-wide agro-ecological transformation of the farming practices of its 6 million farmers over 6 million hectares...

Highlights: Part II focuses more specifically on the social and economic impact of high inflation in the country. It also gives an overview of the measures the Government put in...

This review summarizes empirical evidence for the effects of food export restrictions on domestic food prices and the welfare of food system actors in the local economy of exporting countries. Evidence...

The Nepal Development Update is produced annually to report on key economic developments that occurred during the year, place them in a longer-term and global perspective, and to examine (in the Special...