South Asia Blogs and Resources on COVID-19

SOUTH ASIA BLOGS AND RESOURCES ON COVID-19

IFPRI-South Asia is curating a special series of blog posts analyzing the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the sub-national, national, and regional food and nutrition security, poverty, and development. The series is edited by South-Asia Regional Director Shahidur Rashid, Research Fellow Samuel Scott and Research Fellow Kalyani Raghunathan. The IFPRI-SAR blog series is produced in collaboration with ReSAKSS-Asia, which aims to mobilize research to inform policies to reduce poverty and hunger in Asia.

IFPRI-SAR op-eds on COVID-19 published in leading national dailies are available here. To receive regular updates on regional COVID-19 policy responses, subscribe to our IFPRI-SAR newsletter.

Blogs
The issue of supply chain disruptions in food markets took center-stage during the nation-wide lockdown in India
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India’s Public Distribution System (PDS) has been the anchor of its food security safety net programs for decades. At present,
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Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and members of civil society in India have stepped up their efforts to complement governmental COVID-19 relief measures.
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Women frontline workers are playing a crucial role to ensure continued health and nutrition services in Tamil Nadu.
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Identifying reverse migration and disruption in urban activities as prime issues in the context of COVID-19 in India, compounded by general livelihood and food insecurity.
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 Livestock sector, an important source of livelihoods for rural India, has been severely hit by the COVID-19 lockdown. In addition
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The Mid-Day Meal Scheme, which is the largest among the school feeding programs could no longer provide the much-needed free lunch.
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Nepal epitomizes the exceptional problems that COVID -19 can bring in for landlocked countries like Nepal with sparse trading options.
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BY SUDHA NARAYANAN, SHREE SAHA Indian government’s stringent lockdown approach to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in