Tag: food
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Rethinking food security monitoring in crisis
New briefing paper released by FIAN 20 Feb 2025 FIAN International has released a new briefing paper (available in English, Arabic, Spanish, and French) that explores the ongoing issue of ineffective monitoring in situations of crises, including starvation and famine, worldwide, with a specific focus on the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) system. In…
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Markets, power, and potatoes: An analysis of agricultural trade between Egypt and Europe
Despite Egypt’s substantial agricultural sector, it grapples with severe food insecurity, relying heavily on volatile global wheat imports. Climate change exacerbates threats to agriculture, impacting small-scale farming in North Africa. High poverty rates, worsened by the 2016 economic crisis, hinder nutrition improvement, especially for children. Egypt’s neoliberal agricultural policies prioritise profit, favouring large-scale farming and…
