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There is a growing body of evidence on the correlation between women’s empowerment and nutritional and other development goals. To date, little of this research has focused on Latin America, where...

Key findings: This article discusses the following six cross-cutting lessons from the emerging microeconomic literature on changes in food insecurity associated with the COVID-19 pandemic: Food insecurity increases...

The release of 657 new bean varieties, in 31 countries of Africa over 25 years, which have reached more than 37 million farmers (58% of whom...

In this policy piece, we investigate the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)–food-insecurity migration channel and develop a policy agenda. The interaction between COVID-19 and the drop in economic activity will...

Este estudio evalúa la contribución de la agroecología a la seguridad alimentaria y contra el cambio climático en la agricultura familiar...

This paper examines the continuing effects of COVID-19 and exposure to weather extremes on income, dietary, and migration outcomes in rural Guatemala. We rely on a comprehensive longitudinal survey of 1,612...

Highlights We use rural & urban level representative phone survey data from 5 African countries. Impacts of COVID-19 were highly correlated...

The study explored the spatial differences in diet quality and economic vulnerability to food insecurity with the association of sociodemographic characteristics at the household level in Bangladesh. This study was a secondary data...

The independent evaluation of the integrated social protection- Fagnavotse programme was jointly commissioned by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), International Labour Organisation (ILO), United...

This decentralized evaluation of Strategic Outcome (SO) 2 of the Kenya’s Country Strategic Plan (CSP) was commissioned by WFP Kenya Country Office and covers the period from June...