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Lina Alaaeldin Abdelfattah

Lina Alaaeldin Abdelfattah is a Senior Research Associate in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in Cairo. Her research interests include applied economic development, trade, and spatial economics, with a focus on topics relevant to social protection, food, nutrition, and agriculture in the Middle East and Africa. 

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The Meat Industry Has Beef With Plant-Based Burgers (Time)

March 23, 2018


Time published an article on the rising prominence of plant-based alternatives to meat, and which cites IFPRI’s research on the environmental implications of dairy production. The article pulls statistics from the 2016 Global Food Policy Report, which found that beef cultivation requires seven times the resources needed to produce pork and poultry, and uses four times as much land as dairy production.

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