Abstract. This study evaluates the effect of a cash transfer on households forecast to experience extreme flooding in Bangladesh five days before the flood

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This week’s collection features a selection of articles that are part of the Agricultural Systems journal’s extensive Special Issue on “Designing, assessing and scaling approaches for integrated seed ...

This week’s collection features new research on the role of behavior change communication and nutrition supplements in preventing relapse from child wasting, sweet potato vine auctions in Rwanda, buye...

Haggling over prices is a common feature of economic transactions in many societies. This study examines whether the gender of the seller influences b…

In this Weekly Reads from IFPRI, we are excited to present a new special issue of Food Policy which explores the complex interactions between fertilizer use, soil health management, and economic shock...

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Often presented as game-changing solutions, agricultural technologies like improved seeds or fertilisers can lead farmers to adopt one at the expense of others, only to disadopt when the expected gain...

Global cuts in development aid budgets could undermine climate finance commitments.

China-expert Dorien Emmers onderzoekt ontwikkelingskansen in China en ziet dat de inkomenskloof tussen mensen met en zonder diploma groeit. “Maar ook de 12 miljoen hoogopgeleiden die jaarlijks afstuderen, vinden niet makkelijk een job.”

Stocks were in free fall again Friday as markets saw their worst week in years. The trade war heated up as China responded to President Trump with their own ...

The sudden withdrawal of almost half of global funding for nutrition suddenly will have dire consequences for decades.

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A recent seminar analyzed emerging evidence and future directions for school meals in the 21st century.

A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.

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For decades, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been unaccountable to taxpayers as it funnels massive sums of money to the

Abstract. In 2005 an earthquake in northern Pakistan led to a significant inflow of international relief groups. Four years later, trust in Europeans and Americans was markedly higher among those expo...