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By Jo Swinnen, Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute, and John McDermott, Director of the CGIAR Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health and co-chair of the CGIAR COVID Hub
COVID-19 Pandemic Offers Rare Chance for Food Systems Transformation
Director General Jo Swinnen & Division Director John McDermott discuss how creative COVID-19 responses provide a unique opportunity for real structural change in food systems.
Maram Zaid - Irrigation and Agriculture Department Manager at Methods for Irrigation And Agriculture (MIRRA)
Jordan faces several challenges related to water and food security. In particular, Jordan’s water sector is characterized by severe water scarcity due to increasing demand caused by a rapidly growing population alongside several influxes of refugees, climate change, and inefficient water use. According to the National Water Strategy (2016), Jordan’s annual renewable water resources [...]
Dalia Elsabbagh - Senior Research Assistant, IFPRI Egypt
Sikandra Kurdi - Research Fellow, IFPRI Egypt
Manfred Wiebelt - Senior Research Fellow and Professor of Economics (emeritus), Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, Germany
The day-to-day hardships of the COVID-19 pandemic are often compared to life during wartime. But Yemenis have it far worse: They are experiencing a pandemic and a war simultaneously. [...]
Ahmed M. Rezk - UNIDO National Programme Officer in Egypt
After the disruption of global value chains (GVCs) due to COVID-19, there is a growing interest in shortening food supply chain (SFSC) and promoting local food for local markets. The SFSC is an alternative system able to provide some “functions” that the GVCs model seems not be able to provide. The SFSC can have a range of spillover effects, from economic benefits to [...]
Dr. Abdul Wahed Othman Mukred - Head of Food Security Technical Secretariat, Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation, Sana'a, Yemen
Yemen suffers from the worst humanitarian crisis in the world since the conflict began in March 2015. The number of people in need of food reached about 24.3 million people, equivalent to more than 80% of the total population. Projections indicate that about 20.1 million people need interventions during the period June-December 2020 while about 10 million individuals suffer from acute food insecurity [...]
Egypt SSP is a joint program of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA)
