Increasing population pressure and population density in many African countries are inducing land scarcity and land constraints. Tightening land constraints are expected to trigger various responses, including agricultural intensification, as postulated by the Boserup hypothesis
The Global Food Crises and the One CGIAR’s Response
On Tuesday, June 28th, 2022, the One Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) initiative held a seminar under the title of "the Global Food Crises and the One CGIAR's Response", marking the start of the National Policies and Strategies (NPS) for Food, Land, and Water Systems Transformation initiative activities in Egypt. The event was hosted by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Egypt office in Cairo.
EGYPT NPS SEMINAR SERIES: Global Food Crises and One CGIAR’s Response
Recurrent food crises and shocks in the world necessitate immediate national as well as global responses to provide short-term relief and longer-term policy change. As economies began recovering from the global COVID-19 pandemic during 2021, the Russian-Ukraine crisis emerged and has become a major setback to global recovering, sparking another global food security crisis
تفاقم أحد أبرز الانهيارات الاقتصادية الوخيمة التي شهدها العالم
تسبب ارتفاع أسعار المواد الغذائية واضطراب الإمدادات جراء نشوب الحرب في "أوكرانيا" في إلحاق أضرار فادحة بالبلدان الواقعة في "منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا"، بما في ذلك على سبيل المثال "مصر" و"السودان" و"اليمن" وهو ما يُعزى بشكل جزئي إلى فرط اعتمادها على واردات حبوب القمح. وبالرغم من ذلك، يتضرر "لبنان" – الذي يجتاز بالفعل في خضم أحد أبرز الانهيارات الاقتصادية الوخيمة التي شهدها العالم منذ خمسينيات القرن التاسع عشر – بمعدل استثنائي من التأثيرات السلبية القائمة في مجال الأمن الغذائي والناجمة عن اندلاع الصراع بين "روسيا" و"أوكرانيا".
One Of the World’s Worst Economic Collapses, Now Compounded By The Ukraine Crisis: What’s Next For Lebanon?
High food prices and supply disruptions triggered by the Ukraine war are hitting Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries like Egypt, Sudan, and Yemen hard, partly due their heavy dependence on wheat imports. But in the region, Lebanon—already in the midst of one of the world’s worst economic collapses since the 1850s—is uniquely vulnerable to food security impacts from the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
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