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Highlights on food security: In domestic currency, food inflation in the region is likely to remain elevated as a result of the continuing pressures on MENA economies’ currencies. In Egypt, year-on-year food...

Most countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are struggling to reduce poverty and vulnerability—COVID-19 and now Russia's invasion of Ukraine are making the task even...

Highlights: Inflation Hurts the Poor and Vulnerable Food price inflation reached double digits for most of the middle-income and low-income MENA economies in 2022. For most MENA economies...

Key messages With the new programming cycle for 2021-2027 now under implementation, the seventh progress report provides an opportunity for closure with respect to the EU’s ambitious 2013 pledge...

This report assesses recent progress in poverty reduction in Zanzibar. It is based on Zanzibar’s last three household budget surveys and considers the period between 2009 and 2019...

IFAD’s Executive Board approved its first loan to the United Republic of Tanzania in 1978 – the second loan ever approved by the board. IFAD’s strategy in...

Now moving into its twelfth year, the conflict in Syria has inflicted a devastating impact on the inhabitants and the economy. The size of economic activity between 2010 and 2019 has...

Resilient Food Systems (RFS) promotes a holistic approach to enhancing agricultural productivity and restoring degraded landscapes in smallholder farming systems. This report showcases the achievements and...

Levels of hunger in 2021 remain alarmingly high, with close to 193 million people acutely food insecure and in need of urgent assistance across 53 countries/territories, according...

This paper draws upon the findings of the Agricultural Policy Research in Africa Programme (APRA), which began its research activities in 2016 to study the consequences of different pathways...