There is growing optimism about the potential of digital innovations to support climate action and transform agricultural markets.
Increasing formal employment for youth and women is a key goal of the Forsa pilot graduation intervention and Egyptian government policy in general.
Forsa is a pilot economic inclusion program implemented by the Ministry of Social Solidarity (MoSS) in Egypt.
We evaluate the impacts of a traditional food distribution and a nutrition-sensitive food distribution intervention in the context of a rapidly increasing inflationary pressure in Egypt.
Egypt’s Haya Karima (HK) Initiative aims at improving the quality of life in the country’s rural communities through interventions related to human development, infrastructure, and economic sectors.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has imperiled global food security — creating suffering within Ukraine and displacing millions while disrupting agricultural production and trade from one of the world’s major exporting regions.
Because of its dependence on food imports, Egypt is particularly vulnerable to the high world food prices and trade shocks triggered by Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Key messages The participation of smallholder farmers in high-value and profitable value chains as well as contract farming remains low in Africa.
Food is a vital part of poor households' budgets and so subsidizing staple foods would appear to be an obvious pro-poor policy.
Egypt’s national cash transfer program, Takaful, and its sister program Karama covered 17 million poor beneficiaries as of 2022, about 16 percent of the Egyptian population.
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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.
م تصميم برنامج فرصة، الذي أطلقته وزارة التضامن الاجتماعي في مصرعام 2021، كبرنامج تخرجمن الفقريستهدف المستفيدين الحاليين من برنامج تكافل للتحويلات النقدية.
The Forsa program, launched in 2021 by the Egyptian Ministry of Social Solidarity has been designed as a graduation program targeted to current beneficiaries of the Takaful cash transfer program.
Forsa, which means “Opportunity” in Arabic, is a new economic inclusion program of the government of the Arab Republic of Egypt.
Addressing longer-term issues of economic development in Egypt, the paper employs a dynamically recursive computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to assess the outcomes associated with two types of development approaches over the period 1998-20