January 21, 2015 By: Hafez Ghanem, Senior Fellow - Brookings Institution Poverty in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is largely a rural phenomenon. Rural poverty in Mauritania and Morocco is about three times higher than urban poverty, while in Egypt and Tunisia it is twice as high. It is not surprising that the Arab […]
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 National Food Security Strategy for Yemen is no Longer a Theoretical Document
January 08, 2015 By: Abdul Wahed Mukred, Head of the Food Security Technical Secretariat - Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation Yemen is one of the most food insecure countries in the world. In 2009 31.5% of Yemenis were food insecure, and by 2011 that number went up to just under 45 percent. According to the latest […]
Facing the Challenge: The Recent Reform of the Egyptian Food Subsidy System
December 19, 2014 By: Olivier Ecker (Research Fellow), Jean Francois Trinh Tan (Research Analyst), and Perrihan Al-Riffai (Sr. Research Analyst) - IFPRI For decades, food subsidies have been one of the main pillars of Egypt’s social protection policy. As the world’s top importer of wheat, Egypt spends billions of dollars every year to subsidize bread—a vital […]
Strong Partnerships for Improved Food Security in the Arab World
December 19, 2014 By: Khalida Bouzar, Director of the Near East, North Africa and Europe Division - IFAD Partnership is crucial to the way we work, here at the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). To see this, one need look no further than IFAD’s founding at the World Food Conference in 1974. Troubled […]
Building Resilience to Crises in the Arab World
December 19, 2014 By: Perrihan Al-Riffai, Sr. Research Analyst – IFPRI and Nerina Muzurovic, Knowledge Management Officer - IFAD In a well-attended side event titled: Building Resilience to Crises in the Arab World at the 41st meeting of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) in Rome, October 17th, 2014, IFPRI in collaboration with its development partners, CGIAR’s […]
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