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Highlights: The report identifies integrated land management and climate-smart agriculture as key recovery levers. According to the report, investing in climate-smart agriculture increases resilience to climate shocks...

Food loss and waste (FLW) reduction is an important component in the transformation of the region’s agrifood systems. Addressing the drivers of FLW along value chains provides an opportunity to tackle...

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...

This policy brief presents an update on the state of food security and the gendergap in food insecurity in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region during theCOVID-19 pandemic using...

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...

Highlight Inflation averaged 171.2 percent in 2022, one of the highest rates globally, primarily due to the depreciation of the LBP. Higher prices for food and non-alcoholic beverages contributed...

Hunger and food insecurity have continued to increase in the Arab region due to various factors, including the COVID-19 pandemic. Part 1 of this report will present the...

This paper provides insights and evidence on how the COVID-19 pandemic and related policy responses to curb its spread influence the risk of child labour in agriculture through different...

The study recommends strategic short-term emergency interventions and medium- and long-term interventions that focus on structural change and improving governance. a. Emergency measures: overcome the vulnerability context...

The SEMED group of countries are among the largest grain, wheat, and foodstuff importers globally. The share of imports in domestic availability of calories ranges from a sizeable 37 percent...