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
May 25, 2020
Coronavirus disruptions across agriculture sector, despite ‘essential’ status of food services in India
Government of India listed all food commodities as essentials allowing their free movement with a hope to avoid disruptions in
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Issue Posts
May 21, 2020
Farmer Organizations with its business as usual may not be the magic solution to COVID-19 recovery
BY RUCHIRA BOSS, MAMATA PRADHAN AND DEVESH ROY Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) are important rural institutions in India. The government
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Issue Posts
May 20, 2020
Protecting India’s health and nutrition programs amidst COVID-19 pandemic
BY RASMI AVULA, SUPREET KAUR, PURNIMA MENON India’s progress on scaling up health and nutrition services was remarkable in the
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Issue Posts
May 18, 2020
COVID-19: India’s response and diets of rural poor
BY KALYANI RAGHUNATHAN India’s policy response to containing COVID-19 pandemic – the lockdown approach – enforced nationwide restrictions on movement
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Issue Posts
May 14, 2020
Tackling coronavirus-induced poverty escalation: Insights from Khaddo Bandhob Program in Bangladesh
BY SHYAMAL CHOWDHURY, SHAHIDUR RASHID AND NAHIAN BIN KHALED Bangladesh is considered a success story in South Asia with nearly
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Blogs
May 13, 2020
How Agri-food Chains in Sri Lanka Fared During the Stringent COVID-19 Control Measures?
The government of Sri Lanka implemented stringent curfew to contain the spread of COVID-19, which disrupted many economic activities. Jeevika Weerahewa, Dilini Hemachandra and Devesh Roy look at the agri-food policy responses including trade regulations, marketing interventions, production and income support programs [Read More...]
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Guest Posts
May 11, 2020
COVID-19 and Food System Risks in India
BY PROFESSOR  RAMESH CHAND With COVID-19, the world is in an unchartered territory of policymaking where global, regional and domestic
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