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Jonathan Doelman, Researcher, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
The Middle East and Northern Africa region will experience large population growth in the coming decades. Already today, land for agriculture relative to the population in many MENA region countries is very low compared to the rest of the world.
Rachel Bahn and Hagar El-Didi - American University of Beirut | IFPRI Egypt
A group of 9 Yemeni experts affiliated with the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation (MoPIC) traveled from Sana’a to Beirut, Lebanon to participate in targeted training on food security and nutrition from March 5-9, 2018. The training was delivered by a joint team from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the American University of Beirut (AUB).
February 25, 2018 By: Rima Al-Azar, Senior Natural Resources Officer, FAO Climate-smart agriculture is an approach that helps unlock sustainable solutions in agriculture sectors impacted by climate change to ensure food security and nutrition. Originally published in 2013, the Climate-Smart Agriculture Sourcebook underwent a two-year revision process and on the Agriculture Action Day at the COP23, FAO […]
January 29, 2018 By: Sherine Al-Shawarby, Vice Dean, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University Over the many upheavals and spells of stability, Egypt’s policy makers have persistently prioritized food subsidies in an effort to achieve social equity and political stability. The recently published World Bank book The 1.5 billion People Question: Food, Vouchers, or Cash? includes […]
By: Andrew Noble, Senior Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute Asia Centre, Thailand Publicly owned and managed large-scale irrigation systems (LSIS) dominate the Middle East, West and South Asian countries. LSIS globally comprise 130 million ha out of a total global irrigated area of 320 million ha, not an insignificant asset and investment. The estimated annual economic value with […]
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)
