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IFPRI EGYPT Seminar: The 100 Million Healthy Lives Initiative: Food availability, access and consumption patterns in Egypt

Mai Mahmoud - IFPRI Egypt

In support of the strategic goals of the "100 Million Health" initiative, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) held the second seminar in a series of seminars co-organized with the National Nutrition Committee (affiliated by the Academy for Scientific Research and Technology). The IFPRI Egypt seminar, "Research to support the 100 Million Healthy Lives Initiative: Food availability, access and consumption patterns in Egypt", took place at the National Nutrition Institute (NNI) on March 24, 2019.

What’s the future of food subsidies in Egypt?

Hoda El-Enbaby and Clemens Breisinger - IFPRI
Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta - World Bank

In Egypt’s current context of wide-ranging economic reforms, there is growing momentum to improve the longstanding Tamween food subsidy system. Tamween’s ration cards benefit around 70 million people, while the bread subsidy benefits around 83 million people, and together they make up about 6 percent of the government’s budget. During a workshop organized by the World Bank under the auspices of the Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade (MoSIT), on May 20th, 2019, Marina Wes (World Bank Country Director for Egypt, Yemen and Djibouti) emphasized the potential expected gains of reforming the subsidy program, and the importance of learning from other countries while contextualizing to Egypt-specific conditions.

Climate Change in Egypt: from adaptation to mitigation

Othman Al-Sheikh, Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Egypt

Climate change has become a matter of major concern at various levels in Egypt. Attention is now being paid to a range of scenarios associated with the rising levels of the Mediterranean Sea and the correlation between the sea-level-rise and the potential inundation of some coastal areas across the Delta of Egypt, as well as the prospective impact on agricultural productivity in quantitative and qualitative terms.

Publication: Beyond the business case for agricultural value chain development: An economywide approach applied to Egypt

Clemens Breisinger, Mariam Raouf, James Thurlow, Manfred Wiebelt

This paper goes beyond the “business” case for agricultural value chain development and presents an economy-wide framework to make the “development” case. We show that there are several key transmission channels that determine the economy-wide impacts of promoting various value chains, including forward and backward economic linkages, price responses, and net employment effects.

News: “100 Million Health” Initiative and the Double Burden of Malnutrition in Egypt

Mai Mahmoud and Sikandra Kurdi - IFPRI Egypt

Egypt's recent national campaign "100 Million Health" is an evidence of the country's commitment towards eradicating the "silent epidemic" of Hepatitis C and raising awareness for controlling the spread of non-communicable diseases (NCD) such as high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity.

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