The Near East and North Africa (NENA) region faces a growing number of complex, overlapping and compounding hazards that are undermining livelihoods, deepening food insecurity and slowing economic development. Increasingly frequent and severe climate extremes – such as droughts, flash floods, heatwaves – are converging with transboundary plant and animal diseases, protracted conflicts and economic volatility. These risks disproportionately impact the agricultural sector, which remains a cornerstone of rural livelihoods and food systems in the region..
NEW PUBLICATION: Evaluating Cereal Market (Dis)Integration in Sudan
This paper evaluates spatial market and price transmission in cereal markets in Sudan, focusing on wheat and sorghum, two major cereal crops. We use comprehensive and long-ranging monthly cereal price data and a multivariate vector of error-correction cointegration models (VECM) to characterize both short-term and long-term price transmissions across local cereal markets
New Global Food 50/50 Initiative Provides Data to Address Gender Gap
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UNFSS Pre-summit Session: “Bold Actions for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Food Systems”
Tuesday, July 27th, 2021
9:00 am to 9:50 am Cairo, Egypt
Speakers in this session include H.E President of Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta, UN Goodwill Ambassador for IFAD Sabrina Elba, and IFPRI’s Director for Africa Dr. Jemimah Njuki who is also the Custodian for Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment for the UN Food Systems Summit 2021.
Smallholder and agrifood SME resilience to shocks
Pandemic impacts on supply chains have differed by type of product. Mechanized production of [...]
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