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 […]
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 [...]
Yemen: Economy-wide impact of conflict and alternative scenarios for recovery
Lina Abdelfattah – IFPRI
This is a summary of a regional program policy note published by IFPRI titled “Yemen: Economy-wide impact of conflict and alternative scenarios for recovery”. [...]
Cash transfers can help Yemen’s conflict-affected children
Sikandra Kurdi and Olivier Ecker - IFPRI
Children are often most affected by civil conflict. The ongoing civil war in Yemen, now entering its fifth year, is the most severe example of a man-made humanitarian crisis with devastating child suffering in recent history.
Youth Bulges and Political Violence
Hosam Ibrahim, Senior Research Assistant, IFPRI-Egypt
The Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development hosted the Economic Research Forum’s (ERF) Annual Conference throughout 10-12 March 2019 in Kuwait City, Kuwait. This year’s conference was held under the theme of Knowledge, Research Networks, and Development Policy.
