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 […]
Switching Gears: Policies for Growth and Food Security in Yemen
June 15, 2015 By: Abdulmajeed Al Bataly, Social Policy Advisor - Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation Share URL During the past few years, the Yemeni economy encountered a series of successive crises and urgent challenges, namely, political instability and insecurity that resulted in economic and social instability. Last year (2014), the economy experienced a new […]
Civil War Triggers More Food Insecurity in Yemen
April 08, 2015 By: Summary of FAO’s Food Security Information System Project Update on Yemen (March 2015) - by Jacopo Bordignon Share URL There are now more hungry and poor people in Yemen as civil conflict spreads to further regions of the country. According to the most recent update of the FAO Food Security Information System Project […]
Working “With the Grain” to Achieve Subsidy Reform in MENA
March 25, 2015 By: Danielle Resnick, Research Fellow – Development Governance and Strategy Division, IFPRI Since many pro-poor reforms have redistributive consequences, they typically generate perceived winners and losers. Consequently, reform processes are quickly derailed when powerful stakeholders with the most to lose oppose such reforms and mobilize protests aimed at undermining government legitimacy. This traditional […]
The Arab World in 2014 and the Outlook for 2015
March 23, 2015 By: IFPRI, MENA Chapter of the 2014/15 Global Food Policy Report - summarized by Jacopo Bordignon The chapter on the Middle East and North Africa recently published in IFPRI’s Global Food Policy Report asserts that stability is crucial for policy reforms of MENA countries transitioning from extended social, political, and economic turmoil. Key policy developments in the […]
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