On Tuesday, February 2nd the European Union, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation (MoALR), hosted a Planning Workshop for the new project “Building a COVDI-19 Rapid Response & Ag-Foresight Department in Egypt. [...]
NEW PUBLICATION: Fertilizer Policies and Implications for African Agriculture
Book Chapter, Annual Trends and Outlook Report 2020 By Gashaw T. Abate, Kibrom A. Abay, and David Spielman Agricultural productivity growth has long been recognized as an important instrument to reduce poverty, generate nonfarm employment, and hence trigger structural transformation processes (see, for example, Timmer 1997; Fan, Hazell, Thorat 1999; Johnson 2000; and Mellor 2000). A […]
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.
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