Create open data culture to feed hungry world – experts
Harvesting rice in Cambodia. Predictive farming based on open data will encourage collaboration to solve long-standing problems and feed communities, a debate on the future of agricultural research heard. Copyright: Chor Sokunthea / World Bank. (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).
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For the past five years a consortium of researchers from Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Gamos and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) have been evaluating the impact of the mNutrition programme. Led by GSMA and supported by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), the programme was a global initiative that aimed to use mobile technology to improve the health and nutritional status of children and adults in low-income countries around the world.
As the evaluation draws to a close, we are delighted to share our final mixed methods reports for the two country case studies in Ghana and Tanzania. Here we asked our consortium researchers, Dr Inka Barnett (IDS, the overall lead and qualitative component lead), Dr Nigel Scott (Gamos, the Business and cost effectiveness component lead) and Dr Dan Gilligan, Dr Melissa Hidrobo and Dr Giordano Palloni (IFPRI, quantitative component) to share a few reflections on what they learnt from the evaluation and
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Monitoring the impacts of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Food vendors – November 2020 survey round 18 December, 2020 - 22:20
Country: Myanmar Source: International Food Policy Research Institute
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Than Zaw Oo, Bart Minten, Derek Headey, Isabel Lambrecht, and Sophie Goudet
Key Findings
Prevention measures for COVID-19 have been implemented in most wet markets in Myanmar.
There have been widespread mandates requiring vendors and consumers to wear masks. Most interviewed vendors report that they are practicing social distancing.
However, over time markets are imposing stricter rules on opening hours, likely leading to congestion and a higher risk of contagion.
Food availability is seemingly not an issue at the national level. Food vendors report food availability, prices, and quantities purchased by customers to be comparable to the same period in a normal year.
MSP the factoids versus the facts
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The debate on agricultural issues must take into account the changed geography of procurement and the seller’s profile
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The debate on agricultural issues must take into account the changed geography of procurement and the seller’s profile
According to one definition, a factoid is “an item of unreliable information that is reported and repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact”. After the passage of the three controversial farm laws, the Minimum Support Price (MSP) not mentioned in the laws has gained a lot of attention. The predominance of factoids about MSP and procurement has meant that the debate has yielded more chaff than grain.