The annual state of food security and nutrition in the world report[1] published by a group of UN agencies a few months ago revealed some shocking and frustrating updates regarding the prevalence and magnitude of food insecurity and malnutrition in the world. According to the report, in 2020 almost one third of the world’s population did not have access to adequate food, 811 million individuals suffered from hunger, more than one fifth of children below 5 were stunted, and 45.4 million children were wasted.
NEW PUBLICATION | Egypt: Impacts of the Ukraine and Global Crises on Poverty and Food Security
Global food, fuel, and fertilizer prices have witnessed rapid and significant increase in recent months, driven largely by the fallout from the ongoing war in Ukraine and associated sanctions im-posed on Russia. Other factors, including governments’ responses and export bans, have also con-tributed to rising prices (Laborde and Mamun 2022). Palm oil and wheat prices increased by 56 and 100 percent in real terms, respectively, between June 2021 and April 2022, with most of the in-crease occurring since February 2022.
NEW PUBLICATION: Plot Size and Sustainable Input Intensification in Smallholder Irrigated Agriculture: Evidence from Egypt
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
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