INDIA
News
June 7, 2021
Given how rural India is hit by Covid’s second wave, ‘grow local, sell local, consume local’ has assumed significance.
Blogs
May 31, 2021
A new credit model by Dvara E-Registry issues loans based on georeferenced crop pictures and associated satellite imagery for a farmer’s plots.
News
May 27, 2021
Ten facts on India’s urban employment during the pandemic and the lockdown.
News
March 4, 2021
"Determination and Resilience amid COVID-19 Uncertainty," provides a close look at how the pandemic impacted the livelihoods of five members of (SEWA) in India
News
March 4, 2021
This episode features Shweta Gupta who tells us the story of how the pandemic has upended the way IFPRI researchers are doing household surveys.
Journal Article
March 4, 2021
Globally, there remain significant knowledge and evidence gaps around how to support Community Health Worker (CHW) programmes to achieve high coverage and quality of interventions.
Journal Article
March 4, 2021
COVID-19 induced lockdowns have had far reaching impacts on the rural sector, particularly on women farmers.
Journal Article
March 4, 2021
This paper examines whether the public transfer program PMGKY, announced immediately after the lockdown, benefited farmers in dealing with the COVID shock.
Research Posts
December 18, 2020
The long-term social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are unknown, but many worry that lockdown-related school closures lasting months will have enduring effects.