June 23, 2016 By: Khalid Siddig; Senior Researcher: International Agricultural Trade and Development, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. Associate Professor: Department of Agricultural Economics, Khartoum University, the Sudan. Share URL Wheat, a major staple cereal crop in the Sudan is targeted by numerous government policies. The most unpopular policy was the self-sufficiency policy that replaced cotton […]
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 […]
How Egypt helps the food insecure
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 […]
The Reality of Extreme Poverty in Arab Countries is Much Harsher than Implied by Data…
December 30, 2015 By: Khalid Abu Ismail- Chief of Economic Policy Section at UN ESCWA Share URL While hunger was on the rise in the Arab region (see figures below); Is there an issue in reporting data or measurement approach in explaining the mis-match? One would have thought that the Arab spring, given its widespread regional impact […]
End Food Insecurity by 2030
December 02, 2015 By: Nadim Khouri, Independent Researcher - The World Bank Share URL Arab leaders and their representatives at the recent UN Summit on Sustainable Development in New York were part of the global consensus to ensure that every person will be food secure “year round” by 2030. Food Security is Goal 2 of the […]
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