PIM Webinar: COVID-19 Risk and Food Value Chain (12/11/2020)

This webinar organized by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) and Food Security Portal on December 11, 2020 shares results of recent studies in Ethiopia, Nigeria, and India on how food value chains are responding to COVID-19. Kalle Hirvonen (IFPRI) presents findings from a study on food consumption and food security in Ethiopia, using a unique panel survey of a representative distribution of households in Addis Ababa. Sudha Narayanan (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research) discusses bottlenecks in food and agriculture supply chains in India following closures of several Agricultural Produce Market Committee mandis and presents policy recommendations to ease the flow of goods. Ben Belton (WorldFish / Michigan State University) presents findings on the impact of COVID-19 on Nigeria’s fish value chains, which are crucial to the country’s food security and employment opportunities. More info: https://bit.ly/COVID-FVC Presenters: Kalle Hirvonen, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute Sudha Narayanan, Associate Professor, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Ben Belton, Associate Professor of International Development in the Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, Michigan State University, and Senior Scientist for Value Chains and Nutrition with WorldFish, Malaysia Discussant: Frank Place, Director, CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) Moderator: Nicholas Minot, Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Division Director in the Markets, Trade and Institutions Division, IFPRI. Co-leader of the research on Inclusive and Efficient Value Chains within the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM).