[HTML][HTML] High-frequency phone surveys on COVID-19: good practices, open questions

S Gourlay, T Kilic, A Martuscelli, P Wollburg, A Zezza - Food policy, 2021 - Elsevier
Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, face-to-face survey data collection efforts
came to a halt due to lockdowns, limitations on mobility and social distancing requirements …

COVID‐19 in rural Africa: Food access disruptions, food insecurity and coping strategies in Kenya, Namibia, and Tanzania

MPJ Tabe‐Ojong, BH Gebrekidan… - Agricultural …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This study assesses the extent of COVID‐19‐related food insecurity in Kenya, Tanzania, and
Namibia. Using the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale, we measure food insecurity in …

COVID‐19 crisis and risk spillovers to developing economies: Evidence from Africa

M Akhtaruzzaman, R Benkraiem… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This study provides new evidence on how risk spillovers occur from the United States to
developing economies in Africa during the COVID‐19 pandemic. The results show that …

[PDF][PDF] Anticipatory cash transfers in climate disaster response

A Pople, R Hill, S Dercon, B Brunckhorst - 2021 - anticipation-hub.org
In the face of increasing climate volatility and stretched aid budgets, more effective ways to
support households in times of crisis are needed. This paper examines the welfare impact of …

Small firms and the pandemic: Evidence from Latin America

ME Guerrero-Amezaga, JE Humphries… - Journal of Development …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper studies the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on small businesses between
March and November 2020 using new survey data on 35,000 small businesses in eight …

COVID-19 pandemic lessons for agri-food systems innovation

CB Barrett, J Fanzo, M Herrero… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The COVID-19 pandemic provides both a warning about agri-food systems'(AFS) functioning
and an accelerator for AFS innovation. It revealed both the increasing frequency of extreme …

Herramientas de protección social para enfrentar los efectos de la pandemia de COVID-19 en la experiencia de América Latina

C Robles, C Rossel - 2021 - repositorio.cepal.org
La pandemia de COVID-19 provocó una crisis mundial sin precedentes en los ámbitos
social, económico y sanitario, que implicó que los países de América Latina y el Caribe …

Social protection amid a crisis: new evidence from South Africa's older person's grant

M Alloush, JR Bloem… - The World Bank Economic …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
This study estimates the effects of South Africa's Older Person's Grant on well-being amid
the COVID-19 pandemic. With household-level data collected before and during the …

Cash transfers as a response to COVID-19: Experimental evidence from Kenya

W Brooks, K Donovan, TR Johnson… - Journal of Development …, 2022 - Elsevier
We deliver one month's average profit to a randomly selected group of female
microenterprise owners in Dandora, Kenya, arriving just in advance of an exponential …

[HTML][HTML] Empowering rural women through gender and nutrition education amid the COVID-19 crisis: Evidence from Myanmar's Central Dry Zone

C Ragasa, I Lambrecht, K Mahrt, ZW Aung - Journal of Rural Studies, 2023 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic had negative impacts on nutrition and strained intrahousehold
relations, particularly among poorer households. Social protection programs intended to …