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📱 🚜 Technological progress in agriculture is essential to tackling the many challenges facing food systems, but it has been unevenly distributed around the world, along with the accompanying gains in productivity and welfare. Learn more in Chapter 17 of the #GFPR2025: 📖

How do get the world (e.g., my children) to eat more fruits 🍎 and vegetables 🥦 (F&V)? A 🆕 scoping review of 223 studies published between 2012-2022: doi.org/10.1177/037957… My takeaway: More evidence is needed on #socialprotection impact on F&V consumption in LMICs!

🆕 #Blog Realistic options for repurposing fertilizer subsidy spending 🖊️ By Ruth Hill and Danielle Resnick. 🔗 Read the full story here: on.cgiar.org/4oxna09 CGIAR

📣 Attn PhD students: 🆓 virtual PhD-level non-credit course on #socialprotection! I did the 2022 course & found it very beneficial. Instructors are experts & many are editors at top economic journals. So their perspective is informative & helpful for generating research ideas.

🆕 paper gives hopeful evidence that rebuilding agricultural infrastructure can restore farming in post-conflict settings, evaluating large-scale #irrigation rehabilitation in #Afghanistan 2010-2016. AidData Paper: doi.org/10.1086/733269 Striking parallels to #Gaza...

More than half a million people in #Gaza are trapped in famine, according to a new IPC analysis. Famine is confirmed when three critical thresholds – extreme food deprivation, acute malnutrition and starvation-related deaths – have been breached. An immediate ceasefire is the

🎶 To go with the first day of fall classes, what song(s) got (or are getting) you through grad school? Mine was "Keep Moving" by Jungle: open.spotify.com/track/4rf0IVQD…. Just keep moving. And if you keep moving long enough, you get your PhD, and then get to keep moving some more. 🫠

⭕ "Development economics is economics that takes place developing countries." First definition that I was taught and, IMO, the de facto definition in economics. I love it for its inclusivity within the field but hate it for how it excludes from other fields. Others agree?

Colombian pink dolphins 🐬 and Malawian hippos 🦛 are other likely casualties of USAID's dismantling. That, and locals' trust that ecotourism might drive economic growth better than poaching, deforestation or conflict. Good article in Condé Nast Traveler: cntraveler.com/story/without-…

Sad news that Innovations for Poverty Action is closing its #Mali office after 15 years but admirable that they remained long after others left. As a former Peace Corps Volunteer in Mali, I say to the IPA Mali staff: I ni baara! Ala ka baara numan soro i fe! poverty-action.org/mali-office-le…

Does #inequality affect what poor households consider "necessities"? Yes, a 🆕 study finds, with implications for understanding the decline in caloric consumption over time in #India. Very insightful! Paper: doi.org/10.1093/jeea/j… Authors: Clement S. Bellet Eve Colson-Sihra

Today's IFPRI Applied Micro & Development speaker is Douglas Gollin (Tufts Economics)! w/ Julien Wolfersberger studies impact of new roads on #deforestation in #Brazil via spatial GE model. Falling transport costs since 1995 --> 7% of total forest loss Great seminar!

🩸🎗️ New long-lasting #HIV prevention (#PrEP) is coming to #Mozambique! Yay! But what will be the barriers to adherence? 😬My 2023 JDE article w/ Dean Yang & others identifies two for HIV testing: #misinformation and #stigma: doi.org/10.1016/j.jdev… atnews.co.za/mozambique-to-…

"What is the most important metric to judge whether a cash transfer program is successful?" 🆕 paper asks high-level policymakers to rank 7 outcomes and their answer: food security! And... 87% (accurately) believe that CTs increase #foodsecurity. Paper: lnkd.in/emVXx72i

🔔 TODAY @ 10:00 AM EDT🔔 📌 The Economy-wide Impacts of School Meal Programs: Generating evidence on return on investment 💬 Speakers include IFPRI’s Aulo Gelli and Harold Alderman and GCNF’s Arlene Mitchell Event Page 💼 bit.ly/SchoolMeals- Register to attend 👉🎫

🖼️ Wall Art at International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) (c. 2013) 🎨 😙🤌