Symposium policy note 1: Enabling farmers to lead food system transformation and resilience in Egypt
Agricultural and food policies will play an important role in making Egypt’s food system fit for future challenges, including resilience to shocks, such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This brief highlights the importance of enabling farmers so that they can contribute significantly to a broader t...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2020
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| description | Agricultural and food policies will play an important role in making Egypt’s food system fit for future challenges, including resilience to shocks, such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This brief highlights the importance of enabling farmers so that they can contribute significantly to a broader transformation and to resilience of Egypt’s food system and rural economy. Five areas of action are highlighted: Invest in a renewed system of agricultural extension services, with an emphasis on new technologies and production systems and on nontraditional crops. Ease rigidities for farmers and increase the market orientation of the agriculture sector, including markets for fertilizer and staple crops. Revisit the current irrigation management system to allow for the adoption of new irrigation technologies and increased efficiency of water usage. Support the development of agro-processing value chains where there are missing markets or market frictions in order to achieve a sustainable and nutrition-sensitive food system. Coordinate agricultural policy with policies of other government ministries to support rural transformation and employment opportunities off the farm. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1437692025-11-06T05:40:05Z Symposium policy note 1: Enabling farmers to lead food system transformation and resilience in Egypt International Food Policy Research Institute rural economics food policies covid-19 farmers capacity development agriculture resilience food systems Agricultural and food policies will play an important role in making Egypt’s food system fit for future challenges, including resilience to shocks, such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This brief highlights the importance of enabling farmers so that they can contribute significantly to a broader transformation and to resilience of Egypt’s food system and rural economy. Five areas of action are highlighted: Invest in a renewed system of agricultural extension services, with an emphasis on new technologies and production systems and on nontraditional crops. Ease rigidities for farmers and increase the market orientation of the agriculture sector, including markets for fertilizer and staple crops. Revisit the current irrigation management system to allow for the adoption of new irrigation technologies and increased efficiency of water usage. Support the development of agro-processing value chains where there are missing markets or market frictions in order to achieve a sustainable and nutrition-sensitive food system. Coordinate agricultural policy with policies of other government ministries to support rural transformation and employment opportunities off the farm. 2020-11-01 2024-05-22T12:16:45Z 2024-05-22T12:16:45Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143769 en ar Open Access application/pdf application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). 2020. Symposium policy note 1: Enabling farmers to lead food system transformation and resilience in Egypt. MENA Policy Note 11. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134165. |
| spellingShingle | rural economics food policies covid-19 farmers capacity development agriculture resilience food systems International Food Policy Research Institute Symposium policy note 1: Enabling farmers to lead food system transformation and resilience in Egypt |
| title | Symposium policy note 1: Enabling farmers to lead food system transformation and resilience in Egypt |
| title_full | Symposium policy note 1: Enabling farmers to lead food system transformation and resilience in Egypt |
| title_fullStr | Symposium policy note 1: Enabling farmers to lead food system transformation and resilience in Egypt |
| title_full_unstemmed | Symposium policy note 1: Enabling farmers to lead food system transformation and resilience in Egypt |
| title_short | Symposium policy note 1: Enabling farmers to lead food system transformation and resilience in Egypt |
| title_sort | symposium policy note 1 enabling farmers to lead food system transformation and resilience in egypt |
| topic | rural economics food policies covid-19 farmers capacity development agriculture resilience food systems |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143769 |
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