Jose Luis (IFPRI Egypt) On December 11th, 2017 IFPRI organized a session as part of FAO-WHO-WFP Regional Symposium on Sustainable Food Systems for Healthy Diets and Improved Nutrition. The session (see agenda) aimed at discussing the potential of social protection policies and programs (SPP) to improve nutrition and promote healthy diets in the NENA region. […]
Cash It Out? Why Food-Based Programs Exist, and How to Improve Them
October 08, 2017 By: Ugo Gentilini (Senior Economist, World Bank), Harlod Alderman (Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI), and Ruslan Yemtsov (Lead Economist, World Bank) India’s state of Chhattisgarh faced a daunting challenge in the mid-2000s. About half of its public food distribution was leaked, meaning that it never reached the intended beneficiaries. By 2012, however, Chhattisgarh had nearly […]
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 […]
Facing the Challenge: The Recent Reform of the Egyptian Food Subsidy System
December 19, 2014 By: Olivier Ecker (Research Fellow), Jean Francois Trinh Tan (Research Analyst), and Perrihan Al-Riffai (Sr. Research Analyst) - IFPRI For decades, food subsidies have been one of the main pillars of Egypt’s social protection policy. As the world’s top importer of wheat, Egypt spends billions of dollars every year to subsidize bread—a vital […]
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