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Samuel Benin

Samuel Benin is the Acting Director for Africa in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. He conducts research on national strategies and public investment for accelerating food systems transformation in Africa and provides analytical support to the African Union’s CAADP Biennial Review.

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Poverty and food insecurity during COVID-19: Telephone survey evidence from mothers in rural and urban Myanmar (October 2020) (Relief Web) 

October 14, 2020


Reliefweb published an article about how Myanmar had one of the lowest confirmed COVID-19 caseloads in the world in mid-2020 and was one of the few developing countries not projected to go into economic recession. to explore the impacts of COVID-19 disruptions on household poverty and coping strategies, as well as maternal food insecurity experiences, this study used a telephone survey conducted in June and July 2020 covering 2,017 mothers of nutritionally vulnerable young children in urban Yangon and rural villages of Myanmar’s Dry Zone (See Protecting maternal and child malnutrition during a pandemic: Lessons learned from Myanmar). Republished in Humanitarian News 

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