This blog is cross-posted from by the IFPRI website and was written by Channing Arndt and Claudia Ringler. Cyclone Idai struck Beira, the fourth largest city in Mozambique, in mid-March with torrential rains and winds of more than 190 km per hour. It took days for the sheer size of the resulting disaster to be understood. >> Read more Source: Malawi Strategy Support Program
Malawi Launch of the 2019 Global Food Policy Report
Rural people around the world continue to struggle with food insecurity, persistent poverty and inequality, and environmental degradation. IFPRI's 2019 Global Food Policy Report calls for rural revitalization, highlighting policies, institutions, and investments that can transform rural areas into vibrant and healthy places to live, work and raise families. “Revitalizing rural areas can stimulate economic >> Read more Source: Malawi Strategy Support Program
2019 Global Report on Food Crises
This story is cross-posted from the IFPRI website and was originally written by Sara Gustafson. The world’s humanitarian assistance and spending needs have more than doubled over the past decade, growing by around 127 percent. Around 40 percent of that went to the food and agriculture sectors. Conflict and climate shocks have led to an >> Read more Source: Malawi Strategy Support Program
Understanding urban consumers’ food choice behavior in Ethiopia: Promoting demand for healthy foods
ESSP Working Paper 131, by Mequanint B. Melesse, Marrit van den Berg, Alan de Brauw, and Gashaw Tadesse Abate. Abstract: Using survey data collected from 996 representative households in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, this paper documents several insights to help understand urban consumer food purchasing and consumption choices. The findings can be summarized as follows: 1) We find >> Read more Source: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
Climate Change in Egypt: from adaptation to mitigation of the causes of climate change
Othman Al-Sheikh, Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Egypt
Climate change has become a matter of major concern at various levels in Egypt. Attention is now being paid to a range of scenarios associated with the rising levels of the Mediterranean Sea and the correlation between the sea-level-rise and the potential inundation of some coastal areas across the Delta of Egypt, as well as the prospective impact on agricultural productivity in quantitative and qualitative terms. Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
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