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Women who received free meals in primary school have children with improved linear growth, according to a new study by IFPRI.
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Given how rural India is hit by Covid’s second wave, ‘grow local, sell local, consume local’ has assumed significance.
Blogs
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
Ten facts on India’s urban employment during the pandemic and the lockdown.
News
"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
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
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
COVID-19 induced lockdowns have had far reaching impacts on the rural sector, particularly on women farmers.
Journal Article
This paper examines whether the public transfer program PMGKY, announced immediately after the lockdown, benefited farmers in dealing with the COVID shock.