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How small fishers in Kerala’s Poonthura benefited from COVID-19 time auction system
19.05.20-
Food security
Marine fishing in India has largely come to a standstill in the wake of COVID-19…
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Covid-19: Hitting rural farming
19.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
The issue of food and nutrition security has come to the fore in Bangladesh as…
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Fish and Aquatic Food Systems COVID-19 updates for May: India
19.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
The nationwide lockdown, characterized by a very strict confinement period, ended on May 17th. Prime…
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Fish and Aquatic Food Systems COVID-19 updates for May: Nigeria
19.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
A family shows their fish smoker, Tungan Mairuwa village, Kainji Lake, NW Nigeria. Photo by…
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Fish and Aquatic Food Systems COVID-19 updates for May: Myanmar
19.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Lockdown measures were relaxed from May 15th and highway public transportation was set to resume…
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Dried fish in a COVID-19 world
19.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
The COVID-19 pandemic illustrates powerfully and directly the degree to which globalization has crea…
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The good and not-so-good news about the state of COVID-19 vaccine development: A primer from ILRI
16.05.20-
Health
Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), holds a week…
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Lessons from a pandemic to repurpose India’s agricultural policy
15.05.20-
Food security
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Health
As the coronavirus crisis triggers a large-scale exodus of migrant agricultural workers from India 
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COVID-19-related trade restrictions on rice and wheat could drive up prices and increase hunger
15.05.20-
Food security
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Health
BY TIMOTHY SULSER ANDÂ SHAHNILA DUNSTON Some governments have responded to alarms about possible COV…
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Managing Asian food systems in the time of COVID-19 and beyond
15.05.20-
Food security
While the world addresses the important short-term effects of COVID-19 on the human population, many…
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Australian Aid: COVID-19 and Water Resources Management
14.05.20-
Health
Reframing our priorities as a water sector The water sector has an important role to…
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Five stark COVID-19 warnings from the agriculture R4D sector
14.05.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
As communities around the world cope with the novel coronavirus, it’s becoming clearer that the…
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Virtual seminar: IFPRI researchers on COVID-19 emerging problems and country-level responses
14.05.20-
Food security
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Health
BY KATARLAH TAYLOR COVID-19 is creating a range of new challenges for economic growth and…
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Amidst food system shocks, we must ensure weather index insurance reaches the most vulnerable
14.05.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
Floods are becoming fiercer and more frequent – and sometimes catastrophic. Across Asia, where mil…
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Integrating fish conservation with water sanitation during COVID-19 in Cambodia
14.05.20-
Food security
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Health
In rural Cambodia, many households are burdened with having to collect and treat their own…
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Resilient and participatory: How Quito’s setting the standard on urban food systems
14.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Like many cities around the world, Quito, Ecuador, is confronting major challenges around providing …
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COVID-19 border policies create problems for African trade and economic pain for communities
12.05.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY ANTOINE BOUËT AND DAVID LABORDE Across Africa, countries have imposed emergency border restrict…
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African stakeholders fear severe food chain impact from COVID-19
12.05.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Stakeholders in the aquaculture sector have raised an alarm of a looming food crisis unless…
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