SPEAKER:

SHERINE AL-SHAWARBYCairo University

MAGUED OSMANBaseera

DORTE VERNERWorld Bank

CLEMENS BREISINGERIFPRI

JACINTO FABIOSAUSAID/Egypt

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Tuesday, May 10, 2016 | 3:00-4:30pm | Cairo, Egypt

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IFPRI Global Food Policy Report 2016

One of IFPRI’s annual flagship reports (5th edition)

Assesses major food policy topics and developments

In 2016 GFPR, many chapters relate to SDGs

2016 GFPR for the first time with Arabic language synthesis

Overview of Chapters

Value chains, food systems

Regional developments

Green energySustainable

diets

Climate change, smallholders,

SDGs Healthy soils

Food loss and food waste

Water management

Food policy indicators

MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA

• MDGs/SDGs, conflicts and refugees

• From subsidies to social safety nets

SOUTH ASIA• Bangladesh: New nutrition, food safety

policy

• India: New sanitation, irrigation program

AFRICA

• 18 countries achieved poverty MDG

• El Niño; Conflicts in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan

LATIN AMERICA & CARRIBBEAN

• Poverty & hunger MDGs achieved

• Increasing overweight, obesity

EAST ASIA• China: New food safety regulation

• Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank established

Source: Adapted from Fan 2016

Regional Developments

• Many Arab countries were on track of achieving MDG’s before 2010• improvements in education,

sanitation, child mortality rates, and maternal health

• progress has been weakest toward cutting poverty, hunger, and malnutrition by half

• But conflicts have undermined previous advances made• instead of halving poverty, poverty

has risen above the 1990s level

• an estimated 50 million people are still undernourished

• dramatic increase in refugees

Major developments in MENA

Source: ArabSpatial: Go to map here

Source: ArabSpatial: Go to map here

IFPRI Policy Brief 23; November 2015

Arab region is among the largest source and largest host of refugees

Policy initiatives:• Emerging consensus has established food security and nutrition as a

priority goal for MENA at UN General Assembly in Oct. 2015 (SDG2)• Many MENA countries directly or indirectly affected by conflict currently

find it hard to focus on SDGs and long term sustainable development solutions

• Egypt is one of the exceptions and started significant reforms, for example in fuel and food subsidies

MENA regional priorities:• Peace building through emergency relief and development activities, incl.

support for hosting refugees• Follow Egyptian example to move from subsidy-based systems to

targeted social safety nets• Evidence-based policy making, data gathering and analysis

MENA policy initiatives and priorities

Food policy indicators and tools

Agricultural Total Factor Productivity

(TFP)

Food Policy Research Capacity

Indicators(FPRCI)

Statistics on Public Expenditure for

Economic Development

(SPEED)

Global Hunger Index (GHI)

Ag Science and Technology Indicators

(ASTI)

ARAB SPATIAL: Monitoring SDGs in MENA

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