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 […]
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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 […]
Integrating people in Arab development agenda
May 17, 2016 By: Najib Saab, Secretary General of Arab Forum for Environment & Development (AFED) Share URL Meeting the target of implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 is an uphill challenge for most Arab countries. In this regard, I have a number of messages. My first message is that we need to stop […]
How Egypt helps the food insecure
May 04, 2016 By: Racha Ramadan, Assistant professor at Faculty of Economics and Political Science- Cairo University Share URL As a Low Income Food Deficit Country (LIFDC), food security is an important challenge for Egypt, with 17.2% of the Egyptians suffering from food insecurity in 2011 and 5% undernourished during the period from 2008 to 2015 Egypt suffers from […]
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