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By Kibrom A. Abay, Hoda El-Enbaby, Lina Abdelfattah, and Clemens Breisinger
In this paper, we investigate the implication of land scarcity on agricultural intensification and the relevance of the Boserup hypothesis in the context of Egypt, where agriculture is dominated by irrigation and input application rates are much higher than SSA. We also examine [...]
Tuesday, January 26th, 2021 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM (EET) Virtual Event The IFPRI-Egypt Seminar Series is part of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded project called “Evaluating Impact and Building Capacity” (EIBC) that is implemented by IFPRI. The seminar supports USAID’s Agribusiness for Rural Development and Increasing Incomes (ARDII) project’s objectives. […]
Ahmed M. Rezk - UNIDO National Programme Officer in Egypt
After the disruption of global value chains (GVCs) due to COVID-19, there is a growing interest in shortening food supply chain (SFSC) and promoting local food for local markets. The SFSC is an alternative system able to provide some “functions” that the GVCs model seems not be able to provide. The SFSC can have a range of spillover effects, from economic benefits to [...]
Basma Yassa - Senior Research Assistant, IFPRI
The economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have imposed unprecedented increasing pressure on global poverty levels. In response, governments have rapidly resorted to the use and the expansion of social safety nets to safeguard the most vulnerable from the negative implications of the outbreak of COVID-19. IFPRI held the 33rd seminar in the Evaluating Impact and Building Capacity seminar series on Tuesday, September 22 on the topic of “COVID-19 and Social protection: From Effective Crisis Protection to Self-Reliance.” The Seminar aimed to discuss [...]
Egypt’s Minister of Social Solidarity and Social Protection Nivine El-Kabbag with IFPRI researchers Clemens Breisinger and Hoda El Enbaby share the story of IFPRI’s collaboration with the government of Egypt to evaluate the country’s first national conditional cash transfer program [...]
Egypt SSP is a joint program of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA)
