Hoda El-Enbaby and Fatma Abdelaziz - IFPRI Egypt
IFPRI’s Xiaobo Zhang and Fatma Abdelaziz gave two presentations at the 2019 annual conference for the Egypt’s Network for Integrated Development (ENID/ElNidaa). This year’s conference title was “Clusters and Economic Development in the South”. It was held in Luxor on February 14th and 15th, under the auspices of H.E. Dr. Mostafa Madbouly, Egypt’s Prime Minister. During the conference, Xiaobo Zhang gave a presentation about China’s experience in cluster-based development. In addition, Fatma Mahfouz presented IFPRI’s work on clusters in the agricultural and food processing sector, by showcasing IFPRI’s preliminary findings on the medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) cluster in Upper Egypt.