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 […]
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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 […]
ENID: Linking Sustainable Agricultural and Rural Development to Food Security and Poverty Reduction in Upper Egypt
February 06, 2015 By: Heba Handoussa, Director General - ENID; and Dyaa Abdou, Director of Sustainable Agricultural Development Programme - ENID Within the reality of the Egyptian economy, the link between sustainable agricultural and rural development, enhancing food security, and reducing poverty is a central issue for achieving economic and social development. In Egypt, agriculture is […]
Promoting Independent Farmers’ Organizations in MENA
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 […]
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 […]
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