December 19, 2014 By: Khalida Bouzar, Director of the Near East, North Africa and Europe Division - IFAD Partnership is crucial to the way we work, here at the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). To see this, one need look no further than IFAD’s founding at the World Food Conference in 1974. Troubled […]
Building Resilience to Crises in the Arab World
December 19, 2014 By: Perrihan Al-Riffai, Sr. Research Analyst – IFPRI and Nerina Muzurovic, Knowledge Management Officer - IFAD In a well-attended side event titled: Building Resilience to Crises in the Arab World at the 41st meeting of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) in Rome, October 17th, 2014, IFPRI in collaboration with its development partners, CGIAR’s […]
AFED’s 7th Annual Conference Recommendations: Food Security Supports Political Stability
December 12, 2014 By: Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED) On December 12th, The Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED) released the recommendations of its seventh annual conference held in Amman, which addressed food security in Arab countries. The recommendations were finalized by a high-level committee of experts and officials who participated in the conference. In […]
Changing Dietary Habits, a Necessity Not a Choice
November 24, 2014 By: Najib Saab, Secretary General - AFED Arab countries have been largely unsuccessful in dealing with the challenges of their limited natural resources. Falling agricultural production is attributed mainly to inappropriate policies, meager investments in science and technology, poor agricultural development and the absence of regional cooperation. Arab countries import half of their […]
Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security
November 12, 2014 By: IFPRI In recent years, many people and parts of the world have been hit by major shocks ranging from conflicts, erratic weather patterns, earthquakes, droughts, and floods to food price spikes. At the same time, poor people and communities remain vulnerable to shocks that may be smaller in scope—such as emerging diseases […]
