August 14, 2017 By: Pascal Bergeret, Director, Institut Agronomique Mediterraneen de Montpellier, CIEHAM, France Share URL Among the lessons learnt about the causes of the global food crisis of 2007/2008, the impact of ill-informed trade policy decisions and panic stricken commercial behaviour comes high on the list. Combined with prolonged drought, soaring oil prices and the […]
UN: Reaching Food Security Goal Unlikely by 2030…Unless
July 27, 2017 By: Nadim Khouri, Independent Researcher - The World Bank Share URL On July 17, 2017 the UN Statistics Division released its (first, substantive) annual SDG Report. A quick recap: the SDGs are the Sustainable Development Goals agreed to by basically all countries of the World and that would lead to significant improvements in 17 areas of […]
The Role of the MENA Region in the Making of Norman Borlaug and International Research
July 16, 2017 By: Derek Byerlee, Editor-in-Chief, Global Food Security; Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University; and Visiting Fellow, Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University Share URL Almost everybody involved in agricultural development and food security knows of Norman Borlaug, father of the green revolution and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970. Yet […]
No Child Should Ever Be Malnourished
June 28, 2017 By: Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa Share URL There is nothing more painful, debilitating and cruel than a child suffering from malnutrition. I have met far too many malnourished children - from tiny babies whose bones protrude through their skin to toddlers who are stunted because […]
Improving Food Security by Avoiding Conflict Relapse
June 12, 2017 By: George F. Willcoxon, Political Scientist, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia Share URL The United Nations humanitarian chief recently announced that the world faced the worst humanitarian crisis since the end of World War II, with over 20 million people at risk of starvation, due in large part to conflicts in […]
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