Search Results - "Egypt"

Price competitiveness and variability in Egyptian cotton: effects of sectoral and economywide policies by Bautista, Romeo M., Gehlhar, Clemen G.

“…An estimated model of the real exchange rate for Egypt is used to provide a further decomposition of the changes in the relative cotton price that isolates the effect of policy-related factors. …”
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AgriTech4Morocco Innovation Challenge Acceleration welcome pack and training materials by Menza, Gianpiero, Zaccari, Claudia

“…As part of the F2R-CWANA, A4IP is conducting innovation challenges in three countries (Morocco, Uzbekistan, and Egypt) to source, support, and accelerate AgriFood and ClimateTech solutions that can provide concrete, deployable, and sustainable solutions for value chain actors, and help respond to the inefficiencies of the agriculture sector in these specific countries. …”
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Linking the economics of water, energy, and food: A nexus modeling approach by Al-Riffai, Perrihan, Breisinger, Clemens, Mondal, Md. Hossain Alam, Ringler, Claudia, Wiebelt, Manfred, Zhu, Tingju

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Defining a trade strategy for southern Mediterranean countries by Bouët, Antoine

“…The objective of this paper is to analyze the best trade approach for Southern Mediterranean countries (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Turkey) that helps them increase market access and develop trade policies which will facilitate the most efficient economic development. …”
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Wastewater treatment practices in Africa - experiences from seven countries by Nikiema, Josiane, Figoli, A., Weissenbacher, N., Langergraber, G., Marrot, B., Moulin, P.

“…Algeria, Burkina Faso, Egypt, Ghana, Morocco, Senegal and Tunisia, are reported. …”
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Gender integration in livestock and fisheries value chains: Emerging good practices from analysis to action by Farnworth, Cathy Rozel, Kantor, Paula, Kruijssen, Froukje, Longley, Catherine, Colverson, Kathleen E.

“…Case studies are taken from Zambia, Kenya and Egypt.…”
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Differential inhibitory action of cotton root juices on isolates of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum (Atkinson) Snyder and Hansen by Khan, I.D., Sabet, K.A.

“…The effect of sterile root juices from Karnak and Menoufi cotton vines (Gossypium barbadense L.) was examined for any inhibitory principle against four strains (FFFF) of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum (Atkinson) Snyder & Hansen, the causal organism of cotton wilt in Egypt. The growth of Fra was not affected by root juices of 'Karnak' and 'Menoufi' at undiluted concentrations. …”
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A manual for practitioners in community-based animal health outreach (CAHO) for highly pathogenic avian influenza by Hendrickx, Saskia C.J., El Masry, I., Atef, M., Aref, N., El Zahraa Kotb, F., El Shabacy, R., Jobre, Y.

“…As part of the Strengthening Avian Influenza Detection and Response (SAIDR) project in Egypt which was funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), a number of training courses in highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) participatory disease surveillance (PDS) later elaborated to be Community based Animal Health Outreach (CAHO) have been conducted for 108 veterinarians (making 54 teams) in 15 governorates. …”
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The Cow in the Room Livestock and Climate Engagement at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) by Mugo, Cynthia, Victor, Michael, Flintan, Fiona E.

“…The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP27) was held November 6-18, 2022, in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, and ILRI was there actively telling the livestock sustainability story. …”
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One of the world’s worst economic collapses, now compounded by the Ukraine crisis: What’s next for Lebanon? by Breisinger, Clemens, Khouri, Nadim, Glauber, Joseph W., Laborde Debucquet, David

“…High food prices and supply disruptions triggered by the Russia-Ukraine war are hitting Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries like Egypt, Sudan, and Yemen hard, partly due their heavy dependence on wheat imports. …”
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Cluster-based agricultural development: A comparison between China and Africa by Zhang, Xiaobo

“…Drawing from three case studies (potato cluster in China, medicinal and aromatic cluster in Egypt, and dates cluster in Tunisia), this chapter discusses the major challenges facing cluster development and the roles of different agents (e.g. entrepreneurs, business associations, and local governments). …”
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Transforming the agrifood processing sector in Africa: The role of industrial clusters by Tabiri, Kwasi Gyabaa, Sakyi, Daniel

“…Moreover, food manufacturing’s share of total manufacturing stood at 14 percent in Egypt in 2018, and 58 percent in Zimbabwe in 2017 (UNIDO INDSTAT 2021). …”
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Agricultural Investment Data Analysis (AIDA) by International Food Policy Research Institute

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Can unconditional cash transfers mitigate the impact of armed conflict on child nutrition in Yemen? by Ecker, Olivier, Maystadt, Jean-Francois

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Yemen: Economy-wide impact of conflict and alternative scenarios for recovery by Althibah, Amir M., Kebsi, Tarek Al, Breisinger, Clemens, Engelke, Wilfried, Tandon, Sharad A., Raouf, Mariam, Wiebelt, Manfred

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How to build resilience to conflict: The role of food security by Breisinger, Clemens, Ecker, Olivier, Maystadt, Jean-François, Trinh Tan, Jean-François, Al-Riffai, Perrihan, Bouzar, Khalida, Sma, Abdelkarim, Abdelgadir, Mohamed

“…To understand the relationship between conflict and food security, this report builds a new conceptual framework of food security and applies it to four case studies on Egypt, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. It argues that food security-related policies and programs build resilience to conflict insofar as they are expected not only to help countries and people cope with and recover from conflict but also to contribute to preventing conflicts and support economic development more broadly: by helping countries and people become even better off.…”
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Adaptation And Selection of Early Maturing And High-Yielding Production of Some Exotic Rice Genotypes Under Egyptian Conditions by El-Badawy, O.A., Soltan, S.A., Bleih, M.E., Anis, G.B., Taha, A.S., EL -Namaky, R.A.

“…successive seasons during 2020 and 2021 at the Experimental Farm of Sakha Agricultural Research station, Sakha, Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt, for identify and select the desirable early and high grain yield promising genotype under Egyptian conditions. …”
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Research on moringa (Moringa oleifera Lam.) in Africa by El Bilali, Hamid, Dan Guimbo, Iro, Nanema, Romaric Kiswendsida, Falalou, Hamidou, Kiebre, Zakaria, Rokka, Veli-Matti, Tietiambou, Sheirita Reine Fanta, Nanema, Jacques, Dambo, Lawali, Grazioli, Francesca, Naino Jika, Abdel Kader, Gonnella, Maria, Acasto, Filippo

“…Moreover, research is performed mainly in South Africa, Nigeria, Egypt, and Ghana. The analysis suggests a significant potential contribution of moringa to food security and nutrition, climate change mitigation/adaptation, farming systems resilience, and livelihoods. …”
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The mixed-complementary approach to specifying agricultural supply in computable general equilibrium models by Lofgren, Hans, Robinson, Sherman

“…In an analysis of reduced agricultural water supplies in Egypt, we show how such a model can generate realistic results concerning water use and productivity that cannot be captured in a standard CGE model. …”
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Don’t spend it all in one place: The medium-term effects of a national cash transfer program on household well-being by Karachiwalla, Naureen, Gilligan, Daniel O., Kurdi, Sikandra

“…This paper examines the medium-term effects of Egypt’s f lagship cash transfer program, Takaful, on several measures of household wellbeing using a regression discontinuity (RD) design. …”
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