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Rachel Bahn and Sibelle El Labban, American University of Beirut
Fatma Abdelaziz, IFPRI
A robust dialogue on food policy that involves multiple stakeholders is critical to advancing food and nutrition security. This message was made abundantly clear through a launch event for IFPRI’s 2018 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR), held at the American University of Beirut (AUB) on July 3, 2018.
Rana Sallam - World Food Programme (WFP)
As part of their longstanding collaboration on building evidence base on food security, nutrition, social protection and education, WFP and IFPRI co-hosted a seminar with the objective of sharing knowledge, lessons learned and good practices on the use of evaluation as a tool for policy formulation and capacity strengthening by MENA governments. Panelists from WFP and IFPRI researchers were joined by a representative from “Save the Children” and government officials from the Government of Egypt (i.e. Ministry of Social Solidarity and Ministry of Education) to discuss how evaluation is playing a major factor in improving the quality of implementation and programmatic performance in Egypt and to reflect on how this model could be a blue-print for the broader MENA region.
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.
Aymen Frija, Agricultural Economist, ICARDA.
Climate simulation models are converging in terms of forecasts for the MENA region, that already suffers scare water quantities and poor quality, with expected higher temperature and decreasing rain fall. While conventional water supply alternatives are getting more and more limited, it has been shown through many studies that water, especially for food production, is inefficiently overused in many countries of the region, and that effective investments in agricultural water demand management could generate important savings and enhance the economic value of the used water.
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)
