November 07, 2017 By: Francesca Romana Borgia, Consultant - Policy and Technical Advisory Division, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Share URL Documenting good practices, gathering data, updating baselines, and analysing documents are great ways of deepening the knowledge and performance of IFAD operations, but often projects lack time and the time and resources to do […]
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Cash It Out? Why Food-Based Programs Exist, and How to Improve Them
October 08, 2017 By: Ugo Gentilini (Senior Economist, World Bank), Harlod Alderman (Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI), and Ruslan Yemtsov (Lead Economist, World Bank) India’s state of Chhattisgarh faced a daunting challenge in the mid-2000s. About half of its public food distribution was leaked, meaning that it never reached the intended beneficiaries. By 2012, however, Chhattisgarh had nearly […]
Large-Scale Foreign Agricultural Investments: Still an Option for a Thirsty Gulf
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 […]
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 […]
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