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 […]
Nexus Mainstreaming for Cooperation and Peace in the Mena Region
April 06, 2016 By: Dr. Holger Hoff Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany Share URL The MENA region is on a non-sustainable trajectory. It is quickly running out of natural resources such as water and arable land, using its resources inefficiently (often associated with high consumption rates and fractions of waste, […]
Promoting resilience in MENA’s food systems: an agenda for COP22
February 13, 2016 By: Guy Jobbins (Research Fellow, ODI), Giles Henley (Research Fellow, ODI), and Oscar Ekdahl (Regional Programme Officer, WFP). Share URL This November, COP22 will be held in Marrakech. Yes, we realise it seems like COP21 only just finished – yet holding COP in Morocco is a great opportunity for discussing climate issues in […]
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