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By: Hagar El-didi The recently published 2016 Global Food Policy Report highlights how the convulsions in the Arab region have contributed to curbing progress in reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)–impeding regional food security and threatening achievement of the newly proposed SDGs. Turbulent economic-political environments Intensified armed conflicts in the Middle East resulted in the […]

By: Fatma Abdelaziz, Hagar El-didi and Yasmine Mandour The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide Egypt with a new framework to monitor and measure its progress and identify gaps and challenges in areas of poverty reduction and ending hunger. But Egypt will need to coordinate these with its own national Sustainable Development Strategy 2030 (SDS), make sure […]

By: Katarlah Taylor, Fatma Abdelaziz, and Jose Luis Figueroa Participants at a recent Cairo seminar held to mark the Egypt launch of IFPRI’s Global Food Policy Report(GFPR) grappled with the Arab region’s profound development problems. The upheavals of the Arab Spring halted progress in meeting the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), said Clemens Breisinger, […]

Egypt faces two major nutritional challenges that have critical implications for the country’s economic future: the disconnect between economic growth and human nutrition and the widespread coexistence of under- and over nutrition among rich and poor people in rural and urban areas. The forthcoming IFPRI book “Nutrition and Economic Development: Exploring Egypt’s Exceptionalism and the […]

Egypt’s food markets are full of fresh fruits and vegetables, and the local souks feature skillfully crafted furniture, scarves, and jewelry. These products are the result of a long tradition of agricultural production, craftsmanship, and trading. However, the producers are often small businesses that find it challenging to expand production, reach new markets, and innovate. […]