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Food Systems and Nutrition Evidence Gap Map

Food Systems and Nutrition Evidence Gap Map

Evidence gap map

This evidence gap map report addresses this challenge by providing an overview of the literature on food systems interventions. It reports on evidence from all key areas and intervention types within the food system and also identifies potential primary and synthesis evidence gaps.

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Evidence Impact: South Africa finds an effective way to teach children to read better

Paul Thissen, Deeksha Ahuja, Kirthi Rao 16 February 2021 blog  
In 2019, as South African President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered his State of the Nation address, one of his new policy announcements was the expansion of a program aimed at helping children learn to read.
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Rike Riesmeier

Nutrition Adviser, Knowledge for Nutrition, GIZ
Rike Riesmeier works as Adviser at GIZ for the Knowledge for Nutrition (K4N) programme, focusing on the development of evidence-based recommendations to improve the effectiveness of German development cooperation programmes and policies relevant to nutrition. Prior to joining K4N, she worked in the Philippines and Myanmar, where she managed a multi-sectoral food and nutrition security project. Rike studied Public Health at LSHTM and Asian Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Bonn, and Waseda University, Tokyo.

In humanitarian emergencies, cash-based social assistance is cheaper than food distribution, and it works just as well

Paul Thissen 23 June 2020 blog  
Cash-based approaches to social protection programs are getting a lot of attention during the COVID crisis. By one count, cash transfers are the most common type of government assistance response to the pandemic.
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Liz Brown

Senior Research Fellow
Liz Brown is a senior research fellow at 3ie and currently a staff scientist at Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) at UC Berkeley where she leads the Cost Transparency Initiative to improve and scale the use of high-quality cost evidence in impact evaluation research. Liz conducts research on the economic and financial cost of conventional aid programs and cash transfers in CEGA’s cash benchmarking portfolio and teaches applied economic evaluation in the East Africa Social Science…
Treatment as prevention: a replication study on early antiretroviral therapy initiation and HIV-1 transmission

Treatment as prevention: a replication study on early antiretroviral therapy initiation and HIV-1 transmission

Replication paper 3ie 2020  
Eric Djimeu and Eleanor G Dickens conduct a replication of the HPTN 052 study by Cohen and colleagues that evaluates the impact of early initiation of antiretroviral therapy on rates of sexual transmission of HIV-1.

Farmer field schools: from agricultural extension to adult education

Farmer field schools: from agricultural extension to adult education

Systematic review summary 3ie PDF icon 2014  
Since the late 1980s, support to agriculture has moved from top-down agricultural extension towards more participatory approaches which better suit smallholder farmers. One such approach is the farmer field school (FFS), an adult education intervention which uses intensive discovery-based learning to promote skills. Although FFS has been used to train 12 million farmers in over 90 countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America, the effectiveness of this approach has long been a subject of debate.

Enhancing access to weather index agricultural insurance in Burkina Faso: a new marketing approach

Enhancing access to weather index agricultural insurance in Burkina Faso: a new marketing approach

Other evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2020  
Authors of this report explore the marketability of a rainfall index insurance product targeted at urban migrants in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, who have relatives engaged in farming in their native villages.

Learning from a publicly subsidised agricultural insurance: evidence from Bolivia

Learning from a publicly subsidised agricultural insurance: evidence from Bolivia

Other evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2020  
Authors of this report assess the feasibility and acceptability of the PIRWA insurance programme among smallholder farmers living in poverty in Bolivia. The PIRWA is a publicly funded, zero-fee insurance programme designed to mitigate risk against damages caused by floods, droughts, hailstorm and frost.

Improving trust and relaxing liquidity constraints to enhance uptake of weather insurance in Ethiopia

Improving trust and relaxing liquidity constraints to enhance uptake of weather insurance in Ethiopia

Other evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2020  
Authors of this study assess if the uptake of an index-based insurance product can be enhanced through marketing activities led by local cooperatives and by introducing a premium payment system designed to promote financial inclusion.

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Building Resilient Societies in Low- and Middle-income Countries: An Evidence Gap Map

Evidence gap map 2023
     
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Author : Miriam Beretta, Sanghwa Lee, Meital Kupfer, Carolyn Huang, Will Ridlehoover, Daniel Frey, Faez Ahmed, Binyang Song, Kristen Marie Edwards, Jaron Porciello, John Eyers, Birte Snilstveit
Sector : Social protection

Improving Food Security in Humanitarian Settings: An Evidence Gap Map

Evidence gap map 2022
     
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Author : Cem Yavuz, Paul Fenton Villar, Miriam Berretta, Ashiqun Nabi, Chris Cooper, Shanon Shisler
Sector : Social protection

The Effect of Transparency and Accountability Interventions in the Extractive Sectors: An Evidence Gap Map

Evidence gap map 2019
     
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Author : Francis Rathinam, Juliette Finetti, Zeba Siddiqui, Birte Snilstveit, Hannah Chirgwin, Richard Appell, Eleanor Dickens, Marie Gaarder
Sector : Energy and extractives

Group-based Livelihood Interventions in L&MICs

Evidence gap map 2019
     
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Author : Bidisha Barooah, Shonar Lala Chinoy, Priyanka Dubey, Ritwik Sarkar, Avantika Bagai
Sector : Agriculture, fishing, and forestry

Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Evidence Gap Map: 2018 Update

Evidence gap map 2018
     
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Author : Hugh Waddington, Hannah Chirgwin, Duae Zehra, Sandy Cairncross, Raj Popat, Miriam Berretta, Hastings Chipungu, Abubeker Tadesse
Sector : Water, sanitation, and waste management

Agricultural Innovation: An Evidence Gap Map

Evidence gap map 2017
     
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Author : Diana Lopez-Avila, Safiya Husain, Raag Bhatia, Megha Nath, Raghava Murthy Vinaygyam
Sector : Agriculture, fishing, and forestry

Social, Behavioural and Community Engagement Interventions for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child Health

Evidence gap map 2017
     
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Author : Anayda Portela, Jennifer Stevenson, Rachael Hinton, Marianne Emler, Stella Tsoli, Birte Snilstveit
Sector : Health

A Map of Evidence Maps Relating to Sustainable Development in L&MICs

Evidence gap map 2017
     
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Author : Daniel Phillips, Christopher Coffey, Stergiani Tsoli, Jennifer Stevenson, Hugh Waddington, John Eyers, Howard White, Birte Snilstveit
Sector : Agriculture, fishing, and forestry

Agricultural Risk and Mitigation Gap Map

Evidence gap map 2017
     
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Author : Bidisha Barooah, Bharat Kaushish, Jyotsna Puri, Beryl Leach
Sector : Agriculture, fishing, and forestry

State-Society Relations

Evidence gap map 2017
     
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Author : Daniel Phillips, Chris Coffey, Emma Gallagher, Paul Fenton Villar, Jennifer Stevenson, Stergiani Tsoli, Sharnic Dhanasekar, John Eyers
Sector : Public administration