March 31, 2015 By: Highlights from Chapter 7 of the 2014-2015 Global Food Policy Report - By Jacopo Bordignon The world has seen more and more conflicts in recent years, such as in Syria, Nigeria, and Yemen. What explains these conflicts and what are the root causes and effects of ongoing civil violence? The authors of […]
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Working “With the Grain” to Achieve Subsidy Reform in MENA
March 25, 2015 By: Danielle Resnick, Research Fellow – Development Governance and Strategy Division, IFPRI Since many pro-poor reforms have redistributive consequences, they typically generate perceived winners and losers. Consequently, reform processes are quickly derailed when powerful stakeholders with the most to lose oppose such reforms and mobilize protests aimed at undermining government legitimacy. This traditional […]
The Arab World in 2014 and the Outlook for 2015
March 23, 2015 By: IFPRI, MENA Chapter of the 2014/15 Global Food Policy Report - summarized by Jacopo Bordignon The chapter on the Middle East and North Africa recently published in IFPRI’s Global Food Policy Report asserts that stability is crucial for policy reforms of MENA countries transitioning from extended social, political, and economic turmoil. Key policy developments in the […]
Will Plummeting Oil Prices Bring Relief in Food Prices for Consumers in the MENA Region?
March 10, 2015 By: Imed Drine, Senior Economist - Islamic Development Bank The slump in oil prices continues to upend the global economy and experts believe that this is likely to last for several years. Oil prices dropped by about 50 percent from the fourth quarter of 2014 to the first month of 2015, the second […]
Gulf Food Security: Strategic Concerns, Nutrition and the Necessity for Trade
February 23, 2015 By: Eckart Woertz, Senior Research Fellow - The Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB) 1970s: Oil and wheat are strategic commodities, their prices are skyrocketing, Arab countries declare an oil boycott against the US and the US contemplates to retaliate with a grain embargo. Gulf countries are alarmed and look into a plan […]
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