September 21, 2017 By: Mai Mahmoud, Senior Research Assistant, IFPRI Egypt Share URL Water scarcity is described by the United Nations Development Programme as one of the gravest threats to human security in the Arab world. Gulf Arab states are especially vulnerable to water shortages due to limited availability of renewable water resources and escalating demands that […]
Established in 2014 and managed by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the Arab Food and Nutrition Security (AFNS) Blog seeks to disseminate policy-relevant discussions and insights from experts working on food and nutrition security in the MENA region.
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Put Food Security and Nutrition in the Middle East and North Africa at the Heart of Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals!
August 30, 2017 By: Gerda Verburg, Assistant UN Secretary-General and Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Coordinator Share URL Making sure no woman, man or child goes hungry has, for decades, been one of humanity’s greatest challenges. Although many solutions have been found in various corners of the world – including across the Middle East and North […]
Trust and Information Sharing Are Pillars Of Food Security
August 14, 2017 By: Pascal Bergeret, Director, Institut Agronomique Mediterraneen de Montpellier, CIEHAM, France Share URL Among the lessons learnt about the causes of the global food crisis of 2007/2008, the impact of ill-informed trade policy decisions and panic stricken commercial behaviour comes high on the list. Combined with prolonged drought, soaring oil prices and the […]
UN: Reaching Food Security Goal Unlikely by 2030…Unless
July 27, 2017 By: Nadim Khouri, Independent Researcher - The World Bank Share URL On July 17, 2017 the UN Statistics Division released its (first, substantive) annual SDG Report. A quick recap: the SDGs are the Sustainable Development Goals agreed to by basically all countries of the World and that would lead to significant improvements in 17 areas of […]
The Role of the MENA Region in the Making of Norman Borlaug and International Research
July 16, 2017 By: Derek Byerlee, Editor-in-Chief, Global Food Security; Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University; and Visiting Fellow, Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University Share URL Almost everybody involved in agricultural development and food security knows of Norman Borlaug, father of the green revolution and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970. Yet […]
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