October 08, 2017 By: Ugo Gentilini (Senior Economist, World Bank), Harlod Alderman (Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI), and Ruslan Yemtsov (Lead Economist, World Bank) India’s state of Chhattisgarh faced a daunting challenge in the mid-2000s. About half of its public food distribution was leaked, meaning that it never reached the intended beneficiaries. By 2012, however, Chhattisgarh had nearly […]
Building datasets as the basis for sound policy making in Egypt: the case of CAPMAS-IFPRI collaboration
September 15, 2016 By: Perrihan Al-Riffai, Sr. Research Analyst, Development Strategy and Governance Division, IFPRI. Share URL Many people in Egypt these days think about the best ways for getting the economy back on track, how to create jobs and how to cushion the inevitable side-effects of the exchange rate devaluation, value added taxes, subsidies and […]
The Poor Quality of Egypt’s Food Is a Crisis
July 14, 2016 By: Dr. Susan Robertson Agricultural Economist, International Center for Biosaline Agriculture - ICBA Share URL Egypt has low rates of food insecurity when compared to other low and middle income countries. Under 5 percent of the population are considered undernourished according to the FAO’s 2015 report on food security. In fact, the FAO reports that […]
How Egypt helps the food insecure
May 04, 2016 By: Racha Ramadan, Assistant professor at Faculty of Economics and Political Science- Cairo University Share URL As a Low Income Food Deficit Country (LIFDC), food security is an important challenge for Egypt, with 17.2% of the Egyptians suffering from food insecurity in 2011 and 5% undernourished during the period from 2008 to 2015 Egypt suffers from […]
Is There an Alternative to Land Expansion for Food Security in Egypt?
November 18, 2015 By: François Molle, IWMI/IRD Share URL Egypt is, perhaps, a unique example of a country where agriculture in general and food production and security in particular, are totally synonymous with water. The Nile river provides 96% of the country’s water resources and population is concentrated in areas where both urban settlements and irrigated […]
