May 15, 2019 9:30 am to 11:30 am CEST Location: Oval Conference Room Via Paolo di Dono, 44 00142 Rome, Italy Co-Organized by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and IFPRI “Digital Tools for Better Rural Investments: The Agricultural Investment Data Analyzer” Building on the previous IFAD-IFPRI-PIM (CGIAR Research Program on Policies, […] Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
What’s the future of food subsidies in Egypt?
Hoda El-Enbaby and Clemens Breisinger - IFPRI
In Egypt’s current context of wide-ranging economic reforms, there is growing momentum to improve the longstanding Tamween food subsidy system. Tamween’s ration cards benefit around 70 million people, while the bread subsidy benefits around 83 million people, and together they make up about 6 percent of the government’s budget. During a workshop organized by the World Bank under the auspices of the Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade (MoSIT), on May 20th, 2019, Marina Wes (World Bank Country Director for Egypt, Yemen and Djibouti) emphasized the potential expected gains of reforming the subsidy program, and the importance of learning from other countries while contextualizing to Egypt-specific conditions. Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
To transform the global food system and feed the world sustainably, start at the local level
BY SURESH BABU In a recent meeting with a developing country policy maker, I was asked which among a flurry of recently-published global reports on achieving food and nutrition security would be best for her county to adopt as a road map for reform. Who, she asked, will be translating the global paradigms outlined in […] Source: IFPRI Ghana
The human face of urban food systems
Marie Ruel, IFPRI
Today, half the world’s population lives in cities. That share will jump to two-thirds by 2050, with much of the growth occurring in Africa and Asia. Given the pace and scale of urbanization, combined with global pressures on food systems such as climate change, a number of initiatives have emerged in recent years to help the world’s cities build sustainable and resilient food systems. Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
Towards setting up a Food Security and Nutrition Information System in Pakistan
Regular monitoring of food security and nutrition, and appropriate response, continues to be a major challenge in most developing countries, including Pakistan, mainly because of limitations in terms of data collection frequency, consistency, coverage, capacity to synthesize, reporting and ease of data access. Recognizing data limitations for evidence-based policy design and keeping in view Pakistan’s >> Read more Source: Pakistan Strategy Support Program
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