October 06, 2014 By: Mahmoud Solh, Director General - ICARDA The string of upheavals in the Arab region in the past three years has been a culmination of several factors, but it’s hard to ignore some hard-hitting facts on the status of food security and unemployment in the region – perhaps even suggestive of a crisis […]
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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Introducing Yemen Spatial
July 02, 2014 By: Jean Francois Trinh Tan Cross-posted from IFPRI Website A tool to help the country reach its food security goals Yemen ranks among the ten most food-insecure countries globally and has child malnutrition rates of nearly sixty percent, the highest in the Arab World. These two figures underscore the country’s future social and economic […]
Pioneering Online Tool Targets Improved Decision Making in Iraq
March 25, 2014 By: IFPRI The following story was originally published on the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) website. ICARDA is a member of the Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers, supported by the CGIAR Fund. Without access to accurate and comprehensive data, decision makers and researchers struggle to develop appropriate policy agendas […]
Enhancing Resilience to Conflict in Arab Countries
February 13, 2014 By: Perrihan Al-Riffai (IFPRI) __Cross-posted from 2020resilience Website. Conflict and development research has in general neglected rural development and food security in the Arab world. To address this research gap, IFAD and IFPRI partnered in a three-year research project that recently culminated in a workshop titled, “Enhancing Resilience to conflict in Arab countries through […]
Connecting the Dots
January 16, 2014 By: IFPRI Cross-posted from IFPRI Website Mapping Development in the Middle East and North Africa with Updated Arab Spatial Improving food security and enhancing economic development in developing countries requires a multifaceted approach—and that includes access to reliable data. In the swiftly changing Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, up-to-date information is particularly […]
