October 1, 2019 Bassel Daher - Research Associate, Water-Energy-Food Nexus Research Group The grand challenges our world faces today - including growing water, energy, and food insecurities - are complex and tightly interconnected. Addressing them requires working across disciplines to develop innovative and multifaceted solutions that respond to their social, economic, technological, and policy dimensions. These solutions […] Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
IFPRI Board Names New Director General
Article re-posted from IFPRI.ORG. September 5, 2019, Washington, D.C. - The Board of Trustees of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) announced today the appointment of Johan “Jo” Swinnen as the institute’s next Director General. Swinnen will begin his tenure on January 7, 2020, succeeding the current Director General, Shenggen Fan, who is completing his term. “Jo brings >> Read more Source: Pakistan Strategy Support Program
Special Event: “Digital Tools for Better Rural Investments: The Agricultural Investment Data Analyzer”
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
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