By Sikandra Kurdi, Jose Luis Figueroa, and Hosam Ibrahim Article published by John Wiley & Sons March 2020 Behavioural change communication interventions have been shown to be effective at improving infant and young child nutrition knowledge and practices. However, evidence in humanitarian response contexts is scarce. Using data on secondary outcomes of breastfeeding, water treatment, […]
NEW PUBLICATION: “Too much of a good thing? Evidence that fertilizer subsidies lead to overapplication in Egypt”
By Sikandra Kurdi, Mai Mahmoud, Kibrom A. Abay, and Clemens Breisinger REGIONAL PROGRAM WORKING PAPER March 2020 As part of a national policy to ensure a certain level of food self-sufficiency in strategic crops, the government of Egypt subsidizes nitrogen fertilizer directly by distributing quotas of subsidized fertilizers to farmers and indirectly by subsidizing natural […]
Prioritizing Investments to Drive Agricultural Transformation in Egypt
Mariam Raouf January 30, 2020 The Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation with support from FAO are currently revising the National Agricultural Strategy. In order to provide technical support for the development of the related investment plan, IFPRI has presented the Agricultural Investment Data Analyzer (AIDA) during a meeting with the agricultural strategy group on […]
Workshop: CGE Modelling and the Formulation of Agricultural Policy in Egypt
Dalia Elsabbagh and Mariam Raouf January 26, 2020 Building on the continuous collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation (MALR) in Egypt, IFPRI has been working with a group of researchers, from Cairo University, to provide 10 weekly online training sessions on Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Modeling during the period from December 5th, […]
NEW PUBLICATION: “Prioritizing agricultural value chains for reviving the food system in Yemen”
By Clemens Breisinger, Mariam Raouf, and Manfred Wiebelt
In addition to the unprecedented humanitarian crisis and the creation of space for militant groups, the conflict in Yemen is also taking a heavy toll on the economy. According to estimates from the International Monetary Fund (IMF 2018) together with information on physical damages from the World Bank-led Yemen Dynamic Damage and Needs Assessment (World Bank et al. 2018), the accumulated impact of the conflict from 2015 to 2018 is estimated to be USD47 [...]
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