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Channing Arndt - Director of IFPRI's Environment and Production Technology Division
Shenggen Fan - Director General of IFPRI
Nick Austin - Director, Agricultural Development, within the Global Development Division at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
On Sept. 23, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, the European Commission, Switzerland, Sweden, and Germany announced commitments of more than $790 million to address the impact [...]
Bassel Daher, PhD
Research Associate, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering; Texas A&M Energy Institute
Research Fellow, Institute for Science Technology & Public Policy, Bush School of Government & Public Service, Texas A&M University
The grand challenges our world faces today - including growing water, energy, and food insecurities - are complex and tightly interconnected. Addressing them requires working across disciplines to develop innovative and multifaceted solutions that respond to their social, economic, technological, and policy dimensions. [...]
May 15, 2019 9:30 am to 11:30 am CEST Location: Oval Conference Room Via Paolo di Dono, 44 00142 Rome, Italy Co-Organized by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and IFPRI “Digital Tools for Better Rural Investments: The Agricultural Investment Data Analyzer” Building on the previous IFAD-IFPRI-PIM (CGIAR Research Program on Policies, […]
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.
Marie Ruel, IFPRI
Today, half the world’s population lives in cities. That share will jump to two-thirds by 2050, with much of the growth occurring in Africa and Asia. Given the pace and scale of urbanization, combined with global pressures on food systems such as climate change, a number of initiatives have emerged in recent years to help the world’s cities build sustainable and resilient food systems.
Egypt SSP is a joint program of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA)
