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How has the war affected Sudan’s economy? Assessing those impacts is a challenge because Sudan is a relatively data-scarce country, especially in wartime.
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Thousands of farmers living in the Keta and Anloga districts of Ghana (Figure 1) depend on groundwater from the Keta strip for producing vegetables
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In a recent IFPRI discussion paper, we outline a randomized experiment in Senegal comparing two methods of survey data collection on VAWG
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Russia’s July 17 withdrawal from the Black Sea Grain Initiative (BSGI), has sparked fears of reduced exports of wheat and other key commodities to developing countries, along with other market disruptions.
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Hidden hunger—the silent epidemic of micronutrient deficiencies—is driven by poverty and continues to be a major public health challenge in the developing world.
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Surveys are a key method for social scientists to gather data on living standards. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, such surveys in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)
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For Africa, which is still recovering from the socio-economic repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine conflict poses a major threat to food security.
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In Africa, about 282 million people (20 percent of the population) are facing food insecurity and are undernourished, more than double the share in any other region of the world
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In August-September 2022, eighteen representatives from the government, civil society, the private sector, farmers, and community leaders met in Bolgatanga, Ghana over a series of 3 workshops to explore potential pathways for improving groundwater use and governance in the White Volta basin in the Upper East region of Ghana