المعرفة

Using a food systems approach, this paper reviews existing evidence and discusses the conditions, rural population segments, and timelines needed to achieve desired outcomes.

This paper explores the role of water in Egypt’s food system and the dilemma the country faces: raise food self-sufficiency by allocating freshwater resources from the Nile to food production, or rely on food imports from water-abundant regions worldwide.

The paper finds that short- to medium-term interventions are most effective for improving the livelihoods of poor farmers, including food security and health, off-farm employment, and social assistance.

In this paper, the certification requirements and schemes of two export commodities—banana and cocoa—are discussed using food system analysis.

تطبّق الزراعة الإيكولوجية مبادئ إيكولوجية على الزراعة وتضمن الاستخدام المتجدد للموارد الطبيعية وخدمات النظام الإيكولوجي، مع معالجة الحاجة لنظم غذائية منصفة اجتماعيا يمكن للأشخاص فيها اختيار ما يأكلونه وكيفية إنتاجه.

IFAD’s strategy in Ethiopia focuses on providing smallholder farmers, pastoralists and agropastoralists with the critical assets they need to enhance productivity and resilience. These include natural resources, technology, finance, institutional capacity and access to markets.