July 28, 2016 By: Jeehan Abdul Ghaffar, Sr. Advisor to WBG Executive Director & MNA Regional Rep of GAFSP Steering Committee Share URL As a young girl growing up in Yemen, I became aware of what I perceived as a contradiction: the food going to villages are much more than the food coming back from the […]
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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The Poor Quality of Egypt’s Food Is a Crisis
July 14, 2016 By: Dr. Susan Robertson Agricultural Economist, International Center for Biosaline Agriculture - ICBA Share URL Egypt has low rates of food insecurity when compared to other low and middle income countries. Under 5 percent of the population are considered undernourished according to the FAO’s 2015 report on food security. In fact, the FAO reports that […]
Wheat imports subsidy in the Sudan: a waste of state funds, an oligopoly or a food security mechanism?
June 23, 2016 By: Khalid Siddig; Senior Researcher: International Agricultural Trade and Development, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. Associate Professor: Department of Agricultural Economics, Khartoum University, the Sudan. Share URL Wheat, a major staple cereal crop in the Sudan is targeted by numerous government policies. The most unpopular policy was the self-sufficiency policy that replaced cotton […]
Food policy developments in the MENA region and future outlook
June 06, 2016 By: Hagar El-Didi, IFPRI-Egypt Share URL The recently published 2016 Global Food Policy Report highlights how the convulsions in the Arab region have contributed to curbing progress in reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)–impeding regional food security and threatening achievement of the newly proposed SDGs. Turbulent economic-political environments Intensified armed conflicts in the Middle East […]
Adopting Good Agricultural Practices for enhanced food safety and security in the Arab region
June 01, 2016 By: The Sustainable Development Policies Division (SDPD) Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) Share URL In 2013, a study on green agricultural value chains by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia ESCWA in collaboration with GIZ called for the harmonization of practices for Arab food products for both the domestic and export markets. In […]
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