October 24th, 2017 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm Location: FAO premises | 11 El Islah El Zeraey St., Ad Doqi | Giza - Egypt The IFPRI-Egypt Seminar Series is part of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded project called “Evaluating Impact and Building Capacity” (EIBC) that is implemented by IFPRI. The seminar supports USAID’s Agribusiness for Rural […]
News: Cash it out? Why food-based programs exist, and how to improve them
Harold Alderman, Ruslan Yemtsov - IFPRI | World Bank India’s state of Chhattisgarh faced a daunting challenge in the mid-2000s. About half of its public food distribution was leaked, meaning that it never reached the intended beneficiaries. By 2012, however, Chhattisgarh had nearly eliminated leakages, doubled the coverage of the scheme, and reduced exclusion errors to […]
News: UN – Reaching Food Security Goal Unlikely by 2030, Unless…
By: Nadim Khouri, Chair of the Arab Food and Nutrition Security Blog On July 17, 2017 the UN Statistics Division released its (first, substantive) annual SDG Report. A quick recap: the SDGs are the Sustainable Development Goals agreed to by basically all countries of the World and that would lead to significant improvements in 17 areas of development. Everyone should […]
News: Food Policy Experts’ Insights on Urbanization and Food Security
Mai Mahmoud (IFPRI-Egypt) Rapid urban growth represents opportunities and challenges for food and nutrition security around the globe. Over half of the world’s population now live in cities; and by 2030, the share of people living in urban areas is projected to overtake the share living in rural areas in most MENA countries. The combination of […]
Training: A First Step Towards a Multi-Agency CGE Modeling Team for Evidence Based Policy Advice in Egypt
Yumna Kassim (IFPRI-Egypt) As the impact of Egypt’s macroeconomic policy reforms is being felt by people and businesses, the impacts of these reforms vary across different sectors and household groups. What we know so far from statistics by the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE 2017a) is that – likely largely driven by the flotation of […]
