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Food, Nutrition Insecurity Risk Could Rise in Ethiopia
By Kalle Hirvonen, Gashaw Tadesse Abate, and Alan de Brauw
COVID-19 and Dairy Value Chains in Ethiopia
This post originally appeared on IFPRI's Ethiopia Support Strategy Program (ESSP) blog.
The share of households consuming dairy products in Addis Ababa has dropped by 11 percentage points since the COVID-19 crisis, seemingly linked to perceived risks of consuming dairy products. All income groups declined their consumption, except for the richest quintile where the share of consuming households changed little.
Impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on vegetable value chains in Ethiopia
This post originally appeared on IFPRI.org blog .
By: Seneshaw Tamru, Kalle Hirvonen, and Bart Minten
Food Insecurity in East Africa
East Africa facing acute food insecurity as drought continues, alerts FEWS and FAO
Household Production and Child Nutrition
In 2011, 44 percent of Ethiopia’s children under the age of five suffered from chronic malnutrition. [1] Reducing that number is important not only for children’s current health and well-being but also for their future health and economic productivity as adults. Thus, improving childhood nutrition by expanding children’s diets to include more nutrient-dense foods like legumes and fruits and vegetables has become an important goal for many policymakers.