October 06, 2016 By: Joe Nasr, Associate, Centre for Studies in Food Security, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada Share URL Ancient cities were established, organically, where food production and distribution systems were sustainable. Much later, when the discipline of urban planning first started to emerge, it had a strong interest in food systems as they connect to cities and […]
Fragility Needs Innovative Development Financing
July 28, 2016 By: Jeehan Abdul Ghaffar, Sr. Advisor to WBG Executive Director & MNA Regional Rep of GAFSP Steering Committee Share URL As a young girl growing up in Yemen, I became aware of what I perceived as a contradiction: the food going to villages are much more than the food coming back from the […]
Food policy developments in the MENA region and future outlook
June 06, 2016 By: Hagar El-Didi, IFPRI-Egypt Share URL The recently published 2016 Global Food Policy Report highlights how the convulsions in the Arab region have contributed to curbing progress in reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)–impeding regional food security and threatening achievement of the newly proposed SDGs. Turbulent economic-political environments Intensified armed conflicts in the Middle East […]
Adopting Good Agricultural Practices for enhanced food safety and security in the Arab region
June 01, 2016 By: The Sustainable Development Policies Division (SDPD) Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) Share URL In 2013, a study on green agricultural value chains by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia ESCWA in collaboration with GIZ called for the harmonization of practices for Arab food products for both the domestic and export markets. In […]
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 […]
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