Regional developments: Middle East and North Africa [in 2025 GFPR]

Over the past 50 years, food and agricultural policy in the Middle East and North Africa has alternated between the dual aims of prioritizing efficiency and economic growth, and ensuring national security through food self-sufficiency and broad-based provision of staple commodities. This chapter sum...

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Main Authors: Kurdi, Sikandra, Hassan, Ganna, Jovanovic, Nina, Steinhuebel-Rasheed, Linda
Format: Book Chapter
Language:Inglés
Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 2025
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174358
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description Over the past 50 years, food and agricultural policy in the Middle East and North Africa has alternated between the dual aims of prioritizing efficiency and economic growth, and ensuring national security through food self-sufficiency and broad-based provision of staple commodities. This chapter summarizes the historical trends in policies and outcomes as the region moved from heavy state interference to a period of liberalization, first examining agricultural production and related policies and then consumers and food and nutrition policy, before concluding with emerging policy issues and research priorities. Book link: https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174108
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spelling CGSpace1743582025-11-06T03:42:14Z Regional developments: Middle East and North Africa [in 2025 GFPR] Kurdi, Sikandra Hassan, Ganna Jovanovic, Nina Steinhuebel-Rasheed, Linda agricultural policies policies social protection research Over the past 50 years, food and agricultural policy in the Middle East and North Africa has alternated between the dual aims of prioritizing efficiency and economic growth, and ensuring national security through food self-sufficiency and broad-based provision of staple commodities. This chapter summarizes the historical trends in policies and outcomes as the region moved from heavy state interference to a period of liberalization, first examining agricultural production and related policies and then consumers and food and nutrition policy, before concluding with emerging policy issues and research priorities. Book link: https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174108 2025-05-28 2025-04-28T20:11:28Z 2025-04-28T20:11:28Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174358 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174108 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Kurdi, Sikandra; Hassan, Ganna; Jovanovic, Nina; and Steinhuebel-Rasheed, Linda. 2025. Regional developments: Middle East and North Africa. In Global food policy report 2025: Food policy: Lessons and priorities for a changing world, eds. Johan Swinnen and Christopher Barrett. Part Six: Regional Developments and Priorities, Chapter 24, Pp. 555-567. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174358
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Regional developments: Middle East and North Africa [in 2025 GFPR]
title Regional developments: Middle East and North Africa [in 2025 GFPR]
title_full Regional developments: Middle East and North Africa [in 2025 GFPR]
title_fullStr Regional developments: Middle East and North Africa [in 2025 GFPR]
title_full_unstemmed Regional developments: Middle East and North Africa [in 2025 GFPR]
title_short Regional developments: Middle East and North Africa [in 2025 GFPR]
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policies
social protection
research
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174358
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