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Tamara Nanitashvili, Senior Nutrition and Food Systems Officer, FAO Regional Office
The Near East and North Africa (NENA) Region, is characterized with multiple burdens of malnutrition, including under-nutrition (wasting and stunting), over-nutrition (overweight and obesity) and micronutrient deficiencies. The prevalence of obesity in the region, which is rising at a fast pace and significantly exceeds the global average (FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO, 2017), is particularly concerning.
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 […]
May 04, 2016 By: Racha Ramadan, Assistant professor at Faculty of Economics and Political Science- Cairo University Share URL As a Low Income Food Deficit Country (LIFDC), food security is an important challenge for Egypt, with 17.2% of the Egyptians suffering from food insecurity in 2011 and 5% undernourished during the period from 2008 to 2015 Egypt suffers from […]
October 07, 2015 By: Cross posted from the IFPRI Website Share URL With one in three people malnourished worldwide, nutrition is a powerful driver of sustainable development—it has the power to either propel the agenda forward or hold it back. Children whose growth is stunted, people who don’t get enough vitamins and minerals for a healthy […]
April 08, 2015 By: Nahla Hwalla (Dean), Rachel Bahn (Director of Food Security Program), Sibelle El-Labban (Senior Research Assistant) – Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut Share URL Food security does not guarantee ‘nutrient security’ Although food security encompasses availability, accessibility, utilization, and stability, nutrition security is often neglected. Nutrition security is an […]
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)
