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Challenges of Food Security shortages, Spread of diseases and Corona epidemics in Yemen

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 [...]

Agricultural Statistics are Vital: The case of Lebanon

Riad Fouad Saade, CREAL, Lebanon

During the civil war in Lebanon between 1975 and 1990, the country was on “economic survival mode” and cared little about statistics. With post war era, many misleading statistics figures were used lacking serious references.

Policy Note: Leveraging Agricultural Interventions for Improving Nutrition in Egypt

[available in English and Arabic]
Hoda El-Enbaby, Olivier Ecker, José Luis Figueroa, Jef L. Leroy, and Clemens Breisinger

The success of nutrition-sensitive agricultural interventions in countries in the Middle East and North Africa has not been examined in much depth. To narrow this knowledge gap, a smallholder farm household survey was conducted in six governorates in Upper Egypt in April and May 2018 following the winter cropping season.

Climate Change in Egypt: from adaptation to mitigation

Othman Al-Sheikh, Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Egypt

Climate change has become a matter of major concern at various levels in Egypt. Attention is now being paid to a range of scenarios associated with the rising levels of the Mediterranean Sea and the correlation between the sea-level-rise and the potential inundation of some coastal areas across the Delta of Egypt, as well as the prospective impact on agricultural productivity in quantitative and qualitative terms.

Agriculture, Conflict and the Agrarian Question in the 21st Century

Rachel Bahn and Rami Zurayk, American University of Beirut

Eckart Woertz, Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB) and Sciences Po

The volume Crisis and Conflict in Agriculture, published by CABI in September 2018, explores the intersection of agriculture, crisis, and conflict. It considers both over-arching themes, as well as detailed case studies drawn from a range of contexts.

Challenges of Food Security shortages, Spread of diseases and Corona epidemics in Yemen

Agricultural Statistics are Vital: The case of Lebanon

Policy Note: Leveraging Agricultural Interventions for Improving Nutrition in Egypt

Climate Change in Egypt: from adaptation to mitigation

Agriculture, Conflict and the Agrarian Question in the 21st Century

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