Well-performing livestock systems matter enormously for both income and better nutritional outcomes among smallholder farmers in developing countries. The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the Ethiopian Institute for Agricultural Research (EIAR), and policy Studies Institute (PSI) collaborated on a project to improve the evidence and policies for better performing livestock systems in Ethiopia and […]
New report on consumption, production, market access and affordability of nutritious foods in Ethiopia by Kalle Hirvonen and Abdulazize Wolle. Good nutrition supports healthy brain development and allows children to achieve their full potential. Nutrition is part of agriculture; however, increased staple food production to achieve caloric self-sufficiency, a laudable goal for governments national food […]
New journal article by Kalle Hirvonen, Yan Bai, Derek Headey and William A Masters. Background: The EAT–Lancet Commission drew on all available nutritional and environmental evidence to construct the first global benchmark diet capable of sustaining health and protecting the planet, but it did not assess dietary affordability. We used food price and household income data […]
The National Information Platform for Nutrition (NIPN) organized a seminar on November 7, 2019 at the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) on "Reducing chronic undernutrition through nutrition sensitive social protection (SP): Evidence from Bangladesh, lessons for Ethiopia" which was presented by John Hoddinott of Cornell University. Reducing undernutrition is of intrinsic and instrumental value. However, […]
The Ethiopia Strategy Support Program (ESSP) in collaboration with the National Information Platforms for Nutrition (NIPN) and the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) conducted a training on; Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for researchers of EPHI and other local institutes from October 28 - November 1, 2019. The one week training provided tools to familiarize […]
New journal article by Kaleab Baye and Kalle Hirvonen. Abstract: The increasing recognition that stunting and wasting are linked, and that wasting can increase the risk of subsequent stunting, has serious programmatic and policy implications,
Tef is among the most important cereal crops of Ethiopia, with annual acreage of about 3.02 million ha and grain harvests of 5.28 million tons, it accounts for about 30% of the total cultivated area and 20% of the gross grain production of all cereals cultivated in the country.
Re-post from IFPRI.ORG. Newsday (Zimbabwe) reported on an op-ed by Ruth Meinzen-Dick. The op-ed explains that over 60% of all employed women in Sub-Saharan Africa work in agriculture.
Re-post from IFPRI.ORG. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is an approach for transforming and reorienting agricultural systems to support food security under climate change.
Today, we are celebrating World Food Day to promote worldwide awareness and action for those who suffer from hunger and for the need to ensure healthy diets for all. The World Food Day theme for this year is Healthy Diets for a Zero Hunger World. As part of IFPRI's vision of a world free of […]
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