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Monitoring the agri-food system in Myanmar: Agricultural crop traders – March 2022 survey by Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity

“…Crop traders comprise the mid-stream of Myanmar’s food supply chain and serve as the essential link between farms and food processors, exporters, commodity exchange centers, and urban food markets. …”
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Monitoring the agri-food system in Myanmar: Rice millers – November 2021 survey round by Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity

“…Since June 2020, we have monitored the impact of COVID-19 and political instability on rice millers in Myanmar and this is the tenth Research Note in the series. …”
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Monitoring the agri-food system in Myanmar: Rice millers – March 2022 survey round by Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity

“…In March 2022, we interviewed more than 540 active rice millers to assess business disruptions and price changes at the midstream of Myanmar’s most important agricultural value chain. …”
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Monitoring the agri-food system in Myanmar: Understanding the rapid price increase of vegetable oils by Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity

“…This Research Note presents the results from an assessment of the evolution of vegetable oil prices in Myanmar. Vegetable oils are an important product in the diet of Myanmar consumers and high food inflation in the country - 19 percent between December 2022 compared to December 2021 (MAPSA 2022) - is partly explained by substantial price increases for vegetable oils. …”
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Impacts of COVID-19 on Myanmar's chicken and egg sector, with implications for the sustainable development goals by Fang, Peixun, Belton, Ben, Zhang, Xiaobo, Ei Win, Hnin

“…Chicken and eggs make important contributions to the food and nutrition security of low-income households in Myanmar, making it important to understand the impacts of COVID-19 on Myanmar's poultry sector.…”
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Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Rice millers – January 2021 survey round by Myanmar Agriculture Support Activity

“…To understand how Myanmar’s rice value chain has been affected by the COVID-19 crisis, a series of telephone interviews is being conducted with more than 400 rice millers from Ayeyarwady, Bago, and Yangon. …”
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Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Rice millers – November 2020 survey round by Myanmar Agriculture Support Activity

“…To understand how Myanmar’s rice value chain has been affected by the COVID-19 crisis, a series of phone interviews is being conducted with rice millers from Ayeyarwady, Bago, and Yangon. …”
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Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Rice millers - July 2020 survey round by Goeb, Joseph, Tang, Yulu, Zone, Phoo Pye

“…To understand how Myanmar’s rice value chain has been affected by the COVID-19 crisis, a series of phone interviews are being conducted with rice millers from Ayeyarwady, Bago, and Yangon. …”
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Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Rice millers - August 2020 survey round by Goeb, Joseph, Zone, Phoo Pye, Tang, Yulu

“…Interviews were completed by August 22, before a second wave of COVID-19 infections began to spread widely in Myanmar.…”
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Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Rice millers - September 2020 survey round by Goeb, Joseph, Zone, Phoo Pye, Synt, Nang Lun Kham, Cho, Ame, Tang, Yulu

“…This is the third policy note in a series presenting the results from rounds of telephone surveys with rice millers in three important rice-growing regions of Myanmar: Ayeyarwady, Bago, and Yangon. Mills are the most important link between farms and consumers in the rice value chain. …”
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Monitoring the impacts of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Food vendors - November 2020 survey round by Oo, Than Zaw, Minten, Bart, Headey, Derek D., Lambrecht, Isabel B., Goudet, Sophie

“…The purpose of the survey is to provide data and insights to the government, development partners, and interested stakeholders to understand the COVID-19 related shocks on Myanmar’s food markets. In particular, the note explores prevention measures, changes in shopping behavior, difficulties in food vendor operations due to the COVID-19 crisis, changes in availability and prices of foods, perceived changes in consumption, and suggested policy actions by these food vendors.…”
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Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Rice millers – October 2020 survey round by Goeb, Joseph, Synt, Nang Lun Kham, Zone, Phoo Pye, Tang, Yulu

“…To understand how Myanmar’s rice value chain has been affected by the COVID-19 crisis, a series of phone interviews is being conducted with rice millers from Ayeyarwady, Bago, and Yangon. …”
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Monitoring the agri-food system in Myanmar: Rice millers – April 2021 survey round by Myanmar Agriculture Support Activity

“…Rice mills are the most important link in Myanmar’s rice value chain. Mills buy paddy from farmers and process it into rice, the primary staple of Myanmar accounting for more than 50 percent of calories consumed in the country. …”
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Monitoring the agri-food system in Myanmar: Rice millers – June 2021 survey round by Myanmar Agriculture Support Activity

“…To understand the effects of recent economic and political disruptions on Myanmar’s rice sector, we conducted an additional round of a telephone survey of medium- and large-scale rice millers in June 2021.…”
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Livelihoods, poverty, and food insecurity in Myanmar: Household survey evidence from May 2021 by Myanmar Agriculture Support Activity

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Monitoring the agri-food system in Myanmar: Food vendors - September 2021 survey round by Myanmar Agriculture Support Activity

“…Retail prices of the cheapest variety of rice–by far the most important staple in Myanmar–have risen by 8 percent, on average. The relatively more expensive but widely locally consumed rice (pawsan) increased by 17 percent. …”
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Monitoring the agri-food system in Myanmar: Rice millers – September 2021 survey round by Myanmar Agriculture Support Activity

“…To understand the effects of the COVID-19 crisis and political instability on Myanmar’s rice sector, we conducted a telephone survey of 388 medium- and large-scale rice millers from major rice growing regions in September 2021. …”
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Monitoring the agri-food system in Myanmar: Agricultural crop traders – September 2021 survey by Myanmar Agriculture Support Activity

“…To understand the effects of COVID-19 and political instability on Myanmar’s crop trade sector, a phone survey of commodity traders was conducted in September 2021. …”
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Monitoring the agri-food system in Myanmar: Maize farmers – Monsoon season phone surveys by Myanmar Agriculture Support Activity

“…To understand the effects of recent economic and political disruptions on Myanmar’s maize farmers during the monsoon season, we conducted two telephone surveys with 1,178 farmers in July and September 2021. …”
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Monitoring the agri-food system in Myanmar: Agricultural urban wholesale markets – April 2021 by Myanmar Agriculture Support Activity

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