Evaluating general equilibrium benefits and trade-offs By Clemens Breisinger, Yumna Kassim, Sikandra Kurdi, Josée Randriamamonjy, and James Thurlow Most Egyptians receive food subsidies, which are the cornerstone of the country’s social protection system. The government recently attempted to reduce subsidies, with limited success, and introduced a cash transfer program targeting the poor. We use a […]
Working Amid War: Assessing Cash Transfers For Nutrition In Yemen
How do you carry out research in the middle of one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world: the civil war in Yemen? This episode features IFPRI Research Fellow Sikandra Kurdi who, in a conversation with Sivan Yosef, tells the story of how Yemen’s Social Fund for Development and IFPRI partnered on the evaluation of a project that […]
Is Humanitarian Food Aid Enough to Tackle Food Insecurity in Yemen?
Francesco Di Bona - MA in Development Economics and International Studies, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
In crisis and conflict contexts, food assistance is used as a main form of humanitarian aid. Food insecurity can be tackled directly through food basket transfers or school feeding programmes, or indirectly through cash or voucher transfers, with the latter that can be redeemed in supermarkets. Lately, cash transfers have been on the rise as a humanitarian food aid measure. The World Food Programme (WFP) has been [...]
A Call for Evidence-based and Sustained Action for Improving Nutrition in Egypt
Aula Ali - IFPRI Egypt office intern
Habiba Hassan Wassef - Health and Nutrition Policy in Sustainable Development Researcher, National Research Center
Sahar Zaghloul - Vice President, National Nutrition Committee
Clemens Breisinger - IFPRI Egypt Country Program Leader
What are the recommended actions for supporting the 100 million Healthy Lives initiative: based on the existing data and research and on experts and policy makers that attended the joint IFPRI Egypt - NNC seminars, the following actions are recommended: [...]
Policy seminar: Exploring a cash transfer program’s impacts on malnutrition in war-torn Yemen
Katarlah Taylor - IFPRI Senior Events Specialist
The war in Yemen is an ongoing disaster for its people. Over 80% of the population currently requires humanitarian or protection assistance, making it the worst such crisis in the world, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. With two thirds of all districts experiencing pre-famine conditions, and 20 million people food-insecure, the question of how best to deliver food assistance is paramount. A Sept. 5 IFPRI seminar explored [...]
