Key messages The participation of smallholder farmers in high-value and profitable value chains as well as contract farming remains low in Africa.
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The participation of smallholder farmers in high-value and profitable value chains as well as contract farming remains low in Africa.
Clusters for high-value crops are ubiquitous in China and in African countries.
توجز مذكرة السياسات الحالية نتائج تقييم بدائل الاستثمارات العامة داخل منظومة الغذاء - الزراعة في مصر، والذي تم دراسته من قبل "المعهد الدولي لبحوث السياسات الغذائية" في إطار التعاون مع وزارة الزراعة واستصلاح الأراضي وجامعة القاهرة.
This policy note summarizes an evaluation of public investment options for Egypt’s agri-food system conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation of the Governm
The 2019 SAM for Egypt builds on the previous 2014/15 SAM that was built and published by Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) with the support of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
The Regional 2014/15 SAM for Egypt includes 62 sectors and 66 products.
The Egyptian government has prioritized the idea of cluster-based development-that is, the geographic concentration of specialized firms, such as in this case, those producing similar or related products.
The COVID-19 crisis is having strong impacts on the Egyptian economy, but these impacts differ strongly across sectors.1 Based on scenarios run using a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) multiplier model of Egypt’s economy, COVID-19 is estimated to ha
project paper
Climate change adaptation strategies for Egypt’s agricultural sector: A ‘suite of technologies’ approach
Climate change negatively affects Egypt’s agriculture sector. This brief summarizes the results of a modeling exercise to examine a range of climate change adaptation approaches to counteract agricultural productivity declines.
project paper
Climate change and Egypt’s agriculture
With climate change, Egypt’s already arid climate will face even higher temperatures and lower rainfall over key agricultural areas, requiring further urgent adaptation investments.
Although the global economy is forecasted to shrink by 4.4 percent in 2020 (IMF 2020), the Egyptian economy is proving resilient to the immense human and financial costs caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Evolving pieces of evidence show that services are hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, both globally and in Egypt. Employing Google search data, we examine the implications of COVID-19 on demand for various services in Egypt.
L’Afrique connaît ses premières victimes du coronavirus : l’Afrique du Sud, l’Algérie, l’Egypte étaient, à la date du 3 avril, les pays plus touchés[1].
working paper
Too much of a good thing? Evidence that fertilizer subsidies lead to overapplication in Egypt
As part of a national policy to ensure a certain level of food self-sufficiency in strategic crops, the government of Egypt subsidizes nitrogen fertilizer directly by distributing quotas of subsidized fertilizers to farmers and indirectly by subsi
The agriculture sector is key for economic and social development, but the sector’s potential has not received enough attention from policy makers and stakeholders in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.