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International Food Policy Research Institute

NonprofitWashington D.C., District of Columbia, United States
About: International Food Policy Research Institute is a nonprofit organization based out in Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Food security & Agriculture. The organization has 1217 authors who have published 4952 publications receiving 218436 citations.


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors collected data on agropastoralists' perceptions of climate change and adaptation options from agro-pastoral communities in 7 rural districts of Kenya and found that the main barriers to adaptation are lack of credit or savings followed by lack of access to land and inputs.
Abstract: Data on agro-pastoralists’ perceptions of climate change and adaptation options were collected from agro-pastoral communities in 7 rural districts of Kenya. Key adaptation strategies for livestock producers include mixing crop and livestock production, destocking, diversifying livestock feeds, changing animal breeds and moving animals to other sites. Desired adaptation options include introducing new breeds and increasing herd size. Additionally, the main barriers to adaptation identified include lack of credit or savings followed by lack of access to land and inputs. Farmers adaptation among livestock producers is also hindered by the absence of markets, particularly for the purchase of additional animal or new breeds or species.

226 citations

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TL;DR: The WHO indicators are clearly valuable tools for broadly assessing the quality of child diets and for monitoring population trends in IYCF practices over time, but additional measures of dietary quality and quantity may be necessary to understand how specific IY CF behaviours relate to child growth faltering.
Abstract: As the World Health Organization (WHO) infant and young child feeding (IYCF) indicators are increasingly adopted, a comparison of country-specific analyses of the indicators' associations with child growth is needed to examine the consistency of these relationships across contexts and to assess the strengths and potential limitations of the indicators. This study aims to determine cross-country patterns of associations of each of these indicators with child stunting, wasting, height-for-age z-score (HAZ) and weight-for-height z-score (WHZ). Eight studies using recent Demographic and Health Surveys data from a total of nine countries in sub-Saharan Africa (nine), Asia (three) and the Caribbean (one) were identified. The WHO indicators showed mixed associations with child anthropometric indicators across countries. Breastfeeding indicators demonstrated negative associations with HAZ, while indicators of diet diversity and overall diet quality were positively associated with HAZ in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India and Zambia (P < 0.05). These same complementary feeding indicators did not show consistent relationships with child stunting. Exclusive breastfeeding under 6 months of age was associated with greater WHZ in Bangladesh and Zambia (P < 0.05), although CF indicators did not show strong associations with WHZ or wasting. The lack of sensitivity and specificity of many of the IYCF indicators may contribute to the inconsistent associations observed. The WHO indicators are clearly valuable tools for broadly assessing the quality of child diets and for monitoring population trends in IYCF practices over time. However, additional measures of dietary quality and quantity may be necessary to understand how specific IYCF behaviours relate to child growth faltering.

226 citations

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TL;DR: Three approaches are linked to model the combined economic and health systems impacts from COVID-19 on malnutrition and mortality: MIRAGRODEP’s macroeconomic projections of impacts on per capita gross national income (GNI); microeconomic estimates of how predicted GNI shocks impact child wasting; and the Lives Saved Tool (LiST), which links country-specific health services disruptions and predicted increases in wasting to child mortality.

226 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the progress achieved on the basis of global estimates and new analyses of 50 low-income and middle-income countries with national surveys from around 2000 and 2015.

226 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors applied a participatory assessment method to assess farmers' preferences and willingness to pay for selected CSA practices and technologies in diverse rainfall zones and found that farmers' preference for CSA technologies are marked by some commonalities as well as differences according to their socio-economic characteristics and rainfall zones.

226 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Michael B. Zimmermann8343723563
Kenneth H. Brown7935323199
Thomas Reardon7928525458
Marie T. Ruel7730022862
John Hoddinott7535721372
Mark W. Rosegrant7331522194
Agnes R. Quisumbing7231118433
Johan F.M. Swinnen7057020039
Stefan Dercon6925917696
Jikun Huang6943018496
Gregory J. Seymour6638517744
Lawrence Haddad6524324931
Rebecca J. Stoltzfus6122413711
Ravi Kanbur6149819422
Ruth Meinzen-Dick6123713707
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
202321
202267
2021351
2020330
2019367
2018272