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 […]
Affordability of the EAT–Lancet reference diet: a global analysis
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 […]
Seasonality: a missing link in preventing undernutrition
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,
Empowering Africa’s women farmers (Newsday)
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.
Economywide effects of climate‐smart agriculture in Ethiopia
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.
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