March 24, 2016 By: Mariam Al Jaajaa, General Manager of The Arab Group for the Protection of Nature Share URL The Rome-based Committee on World Food Security (CFS) is the foremost inclusive international and intergovernmental body that reviews and follows up on food security and nutrition policies. As part of its reform process which took place in 2009, […]
End Food Insecurity by 2030
December 02, 2015 By: Nadim Khouri, Independent Researcher - The World Bank Share URL Arab leaders and their representatives at the recent UN Summit on Sustainable Development in New York were part of the global consensus to ensure that every person will be food secure “year round” by 2030. Food Security is Goal 2 of the […]
The Refugee Crisis: Europe is the Tip and the Arab Countries are the Iceberg
October 21, 2015 By: Clemens Bresinger (Sr. Research Fellow - IFPRI) and Jean-Francois Maystadt (Sr. Lecturer - Lancaster University) Share URL Despite the huge attention that the hundreds of thousands of refugees crossing the European borders is attracting, the overwhelming majority of refugees is still hosted by developing countries. In fact, all Arab countries combined hosted […]
Building Resilience to Crises in the Arab World
December 19, 2014 By: Perrihan Al-Riffai, Sr. Research Analyst – IFPRI and Nerina Muzurovic, Knowledge Management Officer - IFAD In a well-attended side event titled: Building Resilience to Crises in the Arab World at the 41st meeting of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) in Rome, October 17th, 2014, IFPRI in collaboration with its development partners, CGIAR’s […]
Food Security and the Arab Awakening
August 29, 2012 By: IFPRI IFPRI Experts Discuss Food Security-Conflict Link Cross-posted from IFPRI Website The roots of the “Arab Awakening” run deep. Several factors—political, economic, and sociological—led to the popular uprisings that erupted throughout the Middle East and Northern Africa this decade. Key among these factors was high and volatile food prices. A group of IFPRI researchers […]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 3
- 4
- 5
