PLANNING WORKSHOP: “BUILDING A COVID-19 RAPID RESPONSE AND AG-FORESIGHT DEPARTMENT IN EGYPT”

Planning Workshop

On February 2^nd, 2021 a Planning Workshop took place. The online start-up workshop presented the project’s activities and future plans, including collaborative discussion and brainstorming with stakeholders on the most relevant issues and policies in the agricultural sector’s resilience during COVID-19.

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WORKSHOP AGENDA

OPENING REMARKS

15:00 – 15:10 (EET)

Mohamed Zakaria
Advisor to the Minister
Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation (MoALR)

Ibrahim Laafia
Head of Cooperation
European Union

Clemens Breisinger
MENA Program Leader & Senior Research Fellow
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

PROJECT PRESENTATION

15:10 – 15:40 (EET)

Component 1: Establishment of foresight modeling team
What is the Digitalization Unit’s mandate?
How is it organized?
How will the EU-IFPRI Foresight project help the GOE?

Mohamed El-Kersh
Assistant to the Minister
Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation (MoALR), Egypt
see slides

Component 2: Model-based rapid response to COVID-19 and trainings
COVID-19 impact results based on work with the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development
AIDA as a tool for post-COVID investment prioritization

Mariam Raouf
Senior Research Associate
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
see slides

Component 3: Digital database for agricultural production and trade statistics in Egypt
Building a digital agricultural database for Egypt
Agricultural database as a basis for future analysis
MAP Egypt as an example for the digital database

Guo Zhe
Senior GIS Coordinator
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
see slides

Kibrom Abay
Research Fellow
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
see slides

Yumna Kassim
Research Associate
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

FEEDBACK, SYNERGIES AND DISCUSSION

15:40 – 16:25 (EET)

Fadi Abdelradi
Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics
Cairo University

Ismail ElFaramawy
Senior Agricultural Expert
Italian Agency for Development Cooperation

Aymen Frija
Agricultural Economist (Economic Modeling)
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)

Alaa Zohery
Government Partnership Officer and Head of Digitalization
World Food Programme Egypt

Nasredin Hag ElAmin
Country Representative for Egypt
Food and Agriculture Organisation

CLOSING REMARKS AND NEXT STEPS

16:25 – 16:30 (EET)

Mohamed El-Kersh
Assistant to the Minister
Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation (MoALR), Egypt

Ibrahim Laafia
Head of Cooperation
European Union

Clemens Breisinger
MENA Program Leader and Senior Research Fellow
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

MODERATOR

Kibrom Abay
Research Fellow
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

[1] AIDA was developed by IFPRI and funded by IFAD and the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions and Markets Program.

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This webpage and the video were produced with the support of the European Union. Its contents are the sole responsibility of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.