Key Messages

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.

Global food, fuel, and fertilizer prices have witnessed rapid and significant increase in recent months, driven largely by the fallout from the ongoing war in Ukraine and associated sanctions im-posed on Russia.

The Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) aims to support the development and scaling of the CGIAR’s most strategic and impactful climate change mitigation strategies across Africa.

Conformément à l’Agenda 2063, la ZLECAf représente une étape majeure dans l’achèvement réel de l'intégration économique de l’Afrique.

A pesquisa agrícola e o investimento no desenvolvimento experimental (I&D) estão positivamente associados a altos retornos, porém, estes retornos levam tempo, muitas vezes décadas, para se desenvolver.

Les investissements dans la recherche et le développement expérimental (R&D) agricoles sont positivement associés à des rendements élevés, mais ces rendements prennent du temps - souvent des décennies - pour se développer.

Agricultural research and experimental development (R&D) investment is positively associated with high returns, but these returns take time—often decades—to develop.

La inversión en investigación y desarrollo experimental (I+D) en el sector agrario se asocia positivamente con un alto rendimiento, pero éste tarda en desarrollarse, a menudo décadas.

The long partnership between the Government of Egypt and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) began in the late 1970s but became much more active with the launch of IFPRI’s Egypt Strategy Support Program (ESSP) in 2016.

International trade of food and agricultural products plays a major role in ensuring food security and livelihoods across the African continent.

Rapid urbanization in Africa south of the Sahara continues to highlight the importance of informal retailers as a source of both food and employment for the urban poor.

Agrifood systems are powerful levers for improving livelihoods.

According to the United Nations, the world’s population will grow by 2 billion people over the coming decades to reach 9.7 billion by 2050 (UNDESA-DP 2019a).

An impact evaluation of Yemen’s Cash for Nutrition program provides new evidence of the benefits of “cash plus” transfer programs to meet nutritional needs in conflict situations.

While conflict hinders growth in One MENA, GDP growth in the Other MENA is depressed by the effect of neighbouring conflicts and fluctuating oil prices. Thus economic growth rates are too low to cause a swift reduction in youth unemployment.

Egypt has been providing cash to poor households through its first conditional cash transfer program, Takaful and Karama, a social protection program run by the Ministry of Social Solidarity (MoSS), since March 2015.