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Jozimo Santos Rocha - Agro-Industry Officer (Agribusiness and Value Chains), FAO Regional Office for the Near East and North Africa
Food losses and waste (FLW) have been a challenge in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region since long before t... Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
Johan Swinnen - Director General, the International Food Policy Research Institute
COVID-19 is disrupting economies around the world, but will it cause a food crisis? IFPRI Director General Jo Swinnen says it depends whether you are rich or poor. Jo synthesizes insights from several blog posts in this series to make the case that governments must emphasize policies and programs that target the immediate needs of their poorest citizens. [...] Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
Clemens Breisinger - Senior Research Fellow in IFPRI’s Development Strategy and Governance Division (DSGD) and Head of IFPRI’s Egypt Strategy Support Program (ESSP), based in Cairo.
Abla Abdel Latif - Executive Director of the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES) in Cairo.
Mariam Raouf - Research Associate of IFPRI’s Egypt Strategy Support Program (ESSP), based in Cairo.
Manfred Wiebelt - Senior Research Fellow and Professor of Economics at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, Germany.
As COVID-19 reaches everywhere, low- and middle-income countries are racing to respond to this massive and fast-moving challenge. In the first country blog post in this series, Clemens Breisinger and colleagues assess the pandemic’s economic impacts for Egypt. Household income, especially for the poor, will be hard-hit, linked to disruptions in tourism and declining remittances. The team provides initial policy insights for support to households and businesses. [...] Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
Louise Sarant - independent food security consultant
Three decades ago, Egypt’s Faba bean domestic production suddenly plummeted. A combination of political decisions and environmental changes shattered Egypt’s self-sufficiency in the crop, resulting in today’s heavy reliance on imports. This blog post explores the systemic factors that have contributed to the demise of [...] Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
Francesco Di Bona - MA in Development Economics and International Studies, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
In crisis and conflict contexts, food assistance is used as a main form of humanitarian aid. Food insecurity can be tackled directly through food basket transfers or school feeding programmes, or indirectly through cash or voucher transfers, with the latter that can be redeemed in supermarkets. Lately, cash transfers have been on the rise as a humanitarian food aid measure. The World Food Programme (WFP) has been [...] Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
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